Stanley Kubrick's first big-budget Hollywood feature, which 1956 crime drama tells the story of a veteran crook named Johnny Clay?

Johnny Clay is ready to retire from the crime biz, but decides to carry out just one more heist before he hangs it up for good. He recruits his accomplices and begins to plot an elaborate racetrack robbery. While The Killing didn't turn a profit, the film helped establish "Kubrick's reputation as a budding genius among critics and studio executives", as Peter Bogdanovich wrote in The New York Times. Many filmmakers have acknowledged the impact of the movie's raw, non-linear style on their own work, including Quentin Tarantino, who has pointed to its influence on Reservoir Dogs (1992).

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