Video: 'The Killing' trailer

(Saturday, May 19, 1956) — The Killing, a film noir about a team of specialists that plots a daring racetrack robbery but doesn’t reckon with human frailty, opened today at the Mayfair theater in New York City.

Directed by Stanley Kubrick, the film starred Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Marie Windsor and Ted de Corsia.