The Killing

An early Stanley Kubrick film. Emphasis on early. Black and white. So early it makes Hitchcock's "The Lady Vanishes" seem like "Chariots of Fire." Some guys try to rip off the horseracing track. It's like a dime paperback hardboiled lusty detective story, wannabe Dashiell Hammett, and it's probably as interesting as reading one of those, though I can't admit to having had the pleasure. People talk like the library detective played by Philip Baker Hall in the "Seinfeld" episode, "The Library." Which is a reason to see the "Seinfeld" show, not this movie.