Sterling Hayden stars as an ex-convict who assembles a motley crew of crooks and no-hopers to pull off an elaborate $2million robbery at a heavily guarded racetrack. Stanley Kubrick's thriller, with Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C Flippen and Timothy Carey.

Career criminal Johnny Clay recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and gets married. But when George tells his restless wife about the scheme to steal millions from the racetrack where he works, she hatches a plot of her own.