Stanley Kubrick's "The Killing"

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This is one of THE BEST examples of film noir ever made.
I picked up the budget issue of Stanley Kubrick's second film on DVD, and on the second viewing it just get's better!
Sterling Hayden along with alot of what could be termed B-Movie Stars...Elisha Cooke Jr...."The Maltese Falcon" among others,Jay C. Flippen..."The Wild One" among others, Timothy Carey, Marie Windsor, Vince Edwards...Tv's "Ben Casey", Joe Sawyer..."Petrified Forest", Sarge from "Rin Tin Tin" and others... You've all seen these actors before...only you wouldn't know them without seeing their faces! The whole drama, taut with smart dialog.
It just goes to show the great divide that exists between those directors who started the industry, those brought up on Film, those brought up on Tv...there is just no comparison between today's director's and those who made and were brought up on Film. Occasionaly a good one slips through...like a Wes Anderson...but on the whole we are getting the shaft these days from these Tv generation directors and actors.
Everybody wants to be a star...nobody wants or is what they used to call a character actor. 99% of them get their bones in Tv sitcoms or soaps...which requires the acting effort of peeling a potato...and suddenly they get a movie deal!
It's like everyone is so disposable these days....and those Tv personalities you don't see for a while...veterans from successful Tv sitcoms/dramas...just go to some large holding area, from which another 99.9% dont escape. They just disappear, and suddenly reappear doing infomercials. No wonder there is so much garbage out there these days !
It seemed like in the not so older days, every character actor was working, doing something or other and having careers as long and sometimes longer than the Stars did!

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Topic - Stanley Kubrick's "The Killing" - mikenyc 14:07:18 03/16/02 (10)

Re: Stanley Kubrick's "The Killing" - Victor Khomenko 07:14:20 03/18/02 (1)

A must see of the noir genre, despite your comment. - edta 19:59:06 03/22/02 (0)

Re: Stanley Kubrick's "The Killing" - edta 15:50:58 03/16/02 (7)

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Don't forget to check out Cornell Woolrich (nt) - bubbahotep 22:31:06 03/16/02 (3)

Re: Don't forget to check out Cornell Woolrich (nt) - edta 20:33:10 03/22/02 (0)

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Not bad... not bad... (nt) - Victor Khomenko 06:56:40 03/23/02 (0)

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