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Sterling Hayden: Killing
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Sterling Hayden was the original choice for the role of Quint. Hayden... was in trouble with the Internal Revenue Service for unpaid tax. All Hayden's income from acting was subject to a levy by the IRS, so there was an attempt to circumvent that: Hayden was also a writer, so one idea was to pay him union scale for his acting, and buy a story from him (his literary income wasn't subject to levy) for a large sum. It was concluded that the IRS would see through this scheme, so Robert Shaw was cast instead.
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Sterling Hayden gets the shaft again in The Asphalt Jungle. This guy goes on caper after caper but he just never ends up with the loot. It always slips right through his hands. Every time.
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Sterling Hayden plays a small-time criminal involved in The Killing. Things going tragically wrong is a favourite theme of Kubrick: explored in 2001 and in Dr. Strangelove. The robbery, planned by Johnny Clay (Hayden) is conducted successfully until the robbers are robbed following betrayal by the femme fatale character - Sherry Peaty - the adulterous wife of one of the participants in the crime. Using flash-backs and flash-forwards Kubrick rejects the conventional beginning, middle and end narrative style. Instead he picks up a character, takes them a certain way, drops them and then introduces another one. A similar technique is adopted during the robbery itself permitting simultaneous events to be described.
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Hayden's over-the-top performance is an obvious riff on his earlier super-macho roles, but the comedy lies in the sincerity of the performance. Humor comes from Peter Sellers' reaction shots and the framing of Hayden's ridiculous cigar-chomping head. Taken out of this context, each of Sterling's line readings are as true to the "guy" movie ethic as the next war picture.
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Sterling Hayden movies DVDs filmography available to buy at CDUniverse are listed below. Information on films includes: other actor and actress, star cast and crew information, reviews, director, photo of cover art, product pics and more.
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When ex-con Johnny Clay (Sterling Hayden) says he has a plan to make a killing, everybody wants to be in on the action. Especially when the plan is to steal $2 million in a racetrack robbery scheme in which "no one will get hurt." But despite all their careful plotting, Clay and his men have overlooked one thing: Sherry Peatty (Marie Windsor), a money-hungry, double-crossing dame who’s planning to make a financial killing of her own…even if she has to wipe out Clay’s entire gang to do it!
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