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SUBJECT:
Group of hoods pull off elaborately planned racetrack heist.
NOTES:
Once Kubrick and producer James Harris secured Sterling Haden as the movie's star United
Artists offered $200,000 to produce the film. Harris raised another $120,000, and while
$320,000 was a tiny budget by Hollywood standards he and Kubrick were still able to hire a
cast of notable B movie actors, a full professional crew, and shoot much of the film on
studio sets.
Because Kubrick was now working on a union film, regulations prevented him from acting
as his own cinematographer and Lucien Ballard was hired for the job. This prompted a bit
of conflict as the two would argue over how to light and photograph scenes.
James Harris commented:
"There was an air of resentment all around us. Stanley had his own ideas how
things were to go and people resented his encroaching on their contributions." -- 3
Of working with Kubrick Sterling Haden said:
"I have worked with few directors that good. He's like the Russian documentarians
who could put the same footage together five different ways, so it really didn't matter
what the actors did--Stanley would know what to do with it." -- 3
For Kubrick the appeal of the story had to do with its fractured structure, cutting
back and forth in time as different elements of the robbery were performed:
"It was the handling of time that may have made this more than just a good crime
film." -- 3
CREDITS:
Production Company -- Harris-Kubrick Productions
Producer -- James B. Harris
Director -- Stanley Kubrick
Screenplay-- Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel Clean Break by Lionel White
Additional Dialogue -- Jim Thompson
Cinematographer -- Lucien Ballard
Editor -- Betty Steinberg
Music -- Gerald Fried
Art Director -- Ruth Sobotka Kubrick
Sound -- Earl Snyder
Cast:
Johnny Clay -- Sterling Haden
Marvin Unger -- Jay C. Flippen
Sherry Peatty -- Marie Windsor
George Peatty -- Elisha Cook
Fay -- Coleen Gray
Val Cannon -- Vince Edwards
Randy Kennan -- Ted de Corsia
Mike O'Reilley -- Joe Sawyer
Nikki -- Tim Carrey
Maurice -- Kola Kwariani
Car Park Attendant -- James Edwards
Leo -- Jay Adler
Tiny -- Joe Turkel
Running time: 83 minutes
Distributor: United Artists
FOOTNOTES:
--3--Stanley Kubrick: A Film Odyssey by Gene D.
Phillips, 1977, Popular Library
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