"Celebrated as Stanley Kubrick’s first mature film and made when he was only twenty-eight years old, The Killing (1956) is remarkable for boldly announcing so many of the stylistic and thematic preoccupations that would become important constants of his cinema. The film’s dark, unrelenting irony and complexly fractured narrative immediately distinguished it from his previous work and revealed the posture of the willfully, often provocatively, “difficult” director that he would cultivate throughout his career."

"Sterling Hayden - Johnny Clay"

"Marie Windsor - Sherry Peatty"

"Coleen Gray - Fay"

"Alan Baxter - Little Boy"

"Sherry Peatty: [to George] It isn't fair. I never had anybody but you. Not a real husband. Not even a man. Just a bad joke without a punch line."

"...In All Its Fury and Violence"

"Maurice: You have my sympathies, then. You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else - the perfect mediocrity; no better, no worse. Individuality's a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel confident. You know, I've often thought that the gangster and the artist are the same in the eyes of the masses. They are admired and hero-worshiped, but there is always present an underlying wish to see them destroyed at the peak of their glory."

"These 5 Men Had a $2,000,000 Secret Until One of them told this Woman!"

"Ted de Corsia - Policeman Randy Kennan"

"Cliff Clark - Gates"

"You'd be killing a horse - that's not first degree murder, in fact it's not murder at all, in fact I don't know what it is."

"Whit Bissell - Murderer"

"Curt Conway - Spider"

"Chili Williams - Marcy"

"Regis Toomey - Police Capt. Fields"

"You like money. You've got a great big dollar sign there where most women have a heart."

"Marsha Hunt - Ann Martin"

"John Ireland - Fantail"

"Claire Trevor - Pat Cameron"

"Raymond Burr - Rick Coyle"

"[as she watches Joe die in Ann's arms] The police picked me up and brought me here. There's my Joe, in her arms. A kind of... happiness on his face. In my heart I know that this is right for Joe. This is what he wanted."

"You know Fay, the biggest mistake I made before was shooting for peanuts. Five years have taught me one thing, if nothing else: Anytime you take a chance, you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk. Because they could put you away just as fast for a $10 heist as they can for a million dollar job."

"Dennis O'Keefe - Joseph Emmett (Joe) Sullivan"

"Byron Foulger - Lambert"

"Ian Wolfe - Hawkins"

"WE'RE IN A JAM! You're crazy to stick to me... but I'd rather die than let you go!"

"[about Ann] Keep your eve on Miss Law & Order here. She might go soprano on us."

"The headlines screamed their crime... but they told only half the story. Would YOU give these kids another chance?"

"I want to breathe. That's why I want out of this place... so I can take a deep breath again."