Turner Classic Movies is airing Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956) as part of Eddie Muller's two-month Summer of Darkness film noir festival. The Killing is scheduled on the TCM party lineup at 9:00 PM PT, listed with Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray and Vince Edwards, directed by Stanley Kubrick, running 1 hour 24 minutes. Summer of Darkness runs Friday nights in June and July with Muller hosting prime-time offerings drawn from his “Endless Night: 25 Noir Films that Will Stand the Test of Time,” 23 of which are showing this year; June programming focuses on 1940s noirs. The festival opens the series with John Huston's The Maltese Falcon and sequences films roughly chronologically to trace the genre's development. Sample TCMParty posts called out Sterling Hayden's fedora and praised Timothy Carey as “the king of crazy,” and attendees discussed plot beats and striking visuals from other noir entries such as The Prowler. The series includes late-night salutes to neo-noirs including The Long Good Friday, The Yakuza and Harper.
