...that seems all at once Small and intimate and also sprawling and layered. The image of the perfectly cast noir staple George with buckshot piercing his face is haunting and the scene where Sterling Hayden unpacking the gun in the locker room is taught and fraught with tension. Kubrick packs the frames full of little believable details and every expected snag on the heist is a fairly relatable real world scenario which I suppose adds the necessary dimension.