Who directed the 1956 film The Killing, about a racetrack robbery?

Stanley Kubrick directed the 1956 film The Killing, about a racetrack robbery.

The story centers on Johnny Clay, who assembles a small team to steal betting money from a racetrack. Kubrick adapted Lionel White's 1955 novel Clean Break, with Jim Thompson contributing to the screenplay. The film is notable for presenting the robbery through overlapping viewpoints and a carefully controlled chronology.

Sterling Hayden stars as Clay, while Marie Windsor plays his unfaithful wife, Sherry. The movie was an important early step in Kubrick's career, preceding Paths of Glory and his later work in several genres. Its time-jumping structure was unusual for a 1950s crime film, although the sequence of events remains understandable through repeated scenes and precise narration. The Killing is sometimes confused with later racetrack-crime films, but Kubrick's film is the 1956 black-and-white production.