The Killing - crew, film crew
The entire team, the film crew of the film "The Killing"
The Killing (1956)
Timing:
1:25 (85 min)
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Film crew
Director
Producer
James B. Harris
Producer
Writer
Editor
Betty Steinberg
Editor
Art Direction
Ruth Sobotka
Art Direction
Stunts
Don Turner
Stunts
Fred Gabourie
Stunts
Set Decoration
Harry Reif
Set Decoration
Makeup Artist
Robert Littlefield
Makeup Artist
Original Music Composer
Gerald Fried
Original Music Composer
Production Supervisor
Clarence Eurist
Production Supervisor
Associate Producer
Second Assistant Director
Howard Joslin
Second Assistant Director
Paul Feiner
Second Assistant Director
Director of Photography
Camera Operator
Richard Towers
Camera Operator
Sound Effects Editor
Rex Lipton
Sound Effects Editor
Property Master
Ray Zambel
Property Master
Script Supervisor
Mary Gibsone
Script Supervisor
Screenplay
Novel
Lionel White
Novel
Best Boy Grip
Lou Cortese
Best Boy Grip
Transportation Coordinator
Dave Lesser
Transportation Coordinator
Key Grip
Carl Gibson
Key Grip
Assistant Set Decoration
Karl Brainard
Assistant Set Decoration
Special Effects
Dave Koehler
Special Effects
Gaffer
Bobby Jones
Gaffer
Assistant Director
Milton Carter
Assistant Director
Music Editor
Gilbert D. Marchant
Music Editor
Conductor
Gerald Fried
Conductor
Production Assistant
Marguerite Olson
Production Assistant
Joyce Hartman
Production Assistant
Sound
Earl Snyder
Sound
Visual Effects
Jack Rabin
Visual Effects
Louis DeWitt
Visual Effects
Second Assistant Camera
Robert Hosler
Second Assistant Camera
Hairdresser
Lillian Shore
Hairdresser
Construction Manager
Bud Pine
Construction Manager
Wardrobe Master
Rudy Harrington
Wardrobe Master
Jack Masters
Wardrobe Master
Head Carpenter
Christopher Ebsen
Head Carpenter
Visual Effects Camera
Paul Eagler
Visual Effects Camera
Paint Coordinator
Robert L. Stephen
Paint Coordinator
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is based on Lionel White's novel "The Big Score".
- The appearance of the character Sterling Hayden (Johnny Clay), going on a job in a hat and with a briefcase in his hands, was successfully parodied by E. Rязаnov in the comedy "Beware of the Car" (1966).
- The Killing is a slang term meaning "big score".
- The film shows 8 corpses.
- The results of the initial preview screenings were disappointing due to the non-linear nature of the narrative. Stanley Kubrick was forced to sit in the editing room and re-edit the film so that the script unfolded linearly, but this only further confused the entire plotline. In the end, the film was released in its original form (i.e., with a non-linearly developing plot), and it subsequently had a huge influence on other films with a similar plot structure – such as Quentin Tarantino’s thriller *Reservoir Dogs* (1991) or his drama *Pulp Fiction* (1994).
- The text by the author was added to the film at the insistence of the studio management. Stanley Kubrick disowned this idea as much as he could, but was forced to comply. A significant portion of the information provided to viewers by the narrator turned out to be incorrect or erroneous.
- This was Kubrick’s first film for which he hired a cinematographer. Lucien Ballard was invited to the project because Kubrick was working under union rules for the first time, and therefore was not allowed to be both director and cinematographer, as he had been in his previous films. Kubrick and Ballard constantly argued, and their relationship deteriorated over time to the point where Ballard even stopped coming in the evenings to watch the footage shot during the day.
- Sterling Hayden's character approaches Morris (played by Kola Kwariani) with a proposition at a chess club on 42nd Street in New York. Director and screenwriter Stanley Kubrick was a regular there (as was Morris).
- The script originally called for Sterling Hayden's character to be chopped up by an airplane propeller when he went to collect money, but this plot point was changed to show him simply being shot by police. This occurred because American Airlines claimed the episode implied insufficient safety precautions and that viewers would interpret Hayden’s character’s death in that way.
- It is known that Stanley Kubrick was a very demanding director and always shot many takes. The horse race scene, for example, was filmed 45 times in a row, so the horse used in the filming was sent to slaughter directly from the set. It was the 1950s, so no one paid much attention to this (referring to various public organizations advocating for animal rights).
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