Before he expanded our cinematic minds with 2001: A Space Odyssey — or scared the crap out of us with The Shining — director Stanley Kubrick raised film noir to the level of art with this taut heist film about a group of guys knocking off a race track. The film is extremely well-plotted, and the acting, particularly from Sterling Hayden as the brains of the operation, is top-notch. It’s the visual style of the film, though, that will blow you away, especially in repeated viewings. Watch the tracking shot Kubrick uses to follow Hayden as he walks through his seedy apartment and you’ll start to see flashes of the brilliance of the director and understand why he changed the way we watch movies forever. The second disc of the Blu-ray includes an early Kubrick film, a caper film about a Boxer and a dance hall girl, that’s almost as good.
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