While reminding myself of these Kubrick films, I re-watched The Killing with a friend. “Oh, it’s so hard to follow”, she said, “it keeps jumping back and forward in time.”
Well, it does do a little of that, to make it easier to follow. But it’s not hard, and scenes are repeated to show how the bits link up.
This is a 1950s black and white B movie, a robbery at a race track. You know it’s a B movie from the budget, running time (80 minutes or so) and familiar faces in the cast (Elisha Cook Jr., Timothy Carey, Ted de Corsia and so on).
The story rattles on, and it doesn’t end well. And it features a narration.
For us, this is the first of Kubrick’s film that bears repeated watching.