Overview
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.
Details
- Director
- Stanley Kubrick
- Writer
- Jim Thompson
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- $320,000
Cast
Coleen Gray
Elisha Cook Jr.
James Edwards
Jay C. Flippen
Joe Sawyer
Marie Windsor
Sterling Hayden
Ted de Corsia
Timothy Carey
Vince Edwards
Keywords
adultery
bag of money
black and white
corruption
ex-detainee
femme fatale
film noir
gangster
heist
horse race
husband wife relationship
marriage crisis
robbery
sniper
way of life
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