The Asphalt Jungle influenced The Killing

Kubrick has named The Asphalt Jungle as the film he was working from, and the two share an author of sorts: Huston established the form in 1950 and Kubrick filmed Lionel White's racetrack novel six years later inside it. The inheritance is the professional crew assembled for one job, the plan explained to the audience in advance, and a failure that comes from the men rather than from the police. Kubrick's addition is the fractured chronology, which runs the same afternoon several times from different positions. Sterling Hayden leads both films, which is the least subtle part of the debt.