
Too Late for Tears(1949)
Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.


“In all its fury and violence...”
Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.

Sterling Hayden
Johnny Clay

Coleen Gray
Fay

Vince Edwards
Val Cannon

Jay C. Flippen
Marvin Unger

Ted de Corsia
Randy Kennan

Marie Windsor
Sherry Peatty

Elisha Cook Jr.
George Peatty

Joe Sawyer
Mike O'Reilly

James Edwards
Track Parking Attendant

Timothy Carey
Nikki Arcane
The Killing is a crime, thriller film released in 1956 exploring themes of sniper, adultery, robbery, husband wife relationship, corruption, marriage crisis. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, it stars Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards. Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.
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