The look on Sterling Hayden's face at the end of The Killers is truly one of the great moments in Kubrick films. After all the plans, after all the betrayals, it's a cheap suitcase that ultimately undoes anything, and all Hayden can do is watch the money blow away in the wind.
He doesn't rage or cry or scream, he just watches it all blow away, numb at the idea that it was all for nothing, and he's going to get caught and it doesn't matter, nothing matters.
People who say Kubrick was all brain and no heart always ignore the innumerable touches of humanity in his work, including the despair on the tarmac.
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