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.
The Killing has generally received very positive reviews.
Review of The Killing (1956)
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Review of The Killing (1956)
By Roger Ebert (5,190) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 10 Oct 1956
Review of The Killing (1956)
Review of The Killing (1956)
Review of The Killing (1956)
Review of The Killing (1956)
By Rob Gonsalves (1,031) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 18 Oct 2010
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Review of The Killing (1956)
Review of The Killing (1956)
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The Killing was released in 1956 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 663 reviews, giving The Killing (1956) an average rating of 82%.
Overall, film critics marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 90%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 86%.
With a score of 82%, The Killing is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1956, which stands at 59%.
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