The Money Trap x 3

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1963. First Edition.

Basis for the 1966 film noir, starring Glenn Ford, Ricardo Montalban and Rita Hayworth.

1964 Monarch reissue

cover art by Harry Barton

better image than previously posted

Clean Break into The Killing

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1955. First Edition. In publisher’s trial dust jacket, date stamped March 1, 1955, on the bottom of the front flap.

Basis for Stanley Kubrick’s breakthrough 1956 film “The Killing,” starring Sterling Hayden in one of his defining roles.

1956 Signet reissue – cover art by Robert Maguire

1988 Black Lizard reissue – cover art by Kirwin

1956 United Artists – written and directed by Stanley Kubrick

United Artists 1956 lobby card

The Killing” (United Artists, 1956). Very Fine. Title Lobby Card (11″ X 14″) Film Noir.
Starring Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards, Jay C. Flippen, Elisha Cook, Jr., Marie Windsor, Ted de Corsia, Joe Sawyer, James Edwards, Timothy Carey, Joe Turkel, Jay Adler, Kola Kwariani, Tito Vuolo, Dorothy Adams, James Griffith, William ‘Billy’ Benedict, Charles Cane, Robert Williams, and Art Gilmore. Directed by Stanley Kubrick.

Adaptation of the heist novel Clean Break by Lionel White

Kubrick’s first movie as director

Sterling Hayden in disguise in Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing (1956).