"Reservoir Dogs" was, according to Tarantino, influenced by Stanley Kubrick's "The Killing". Tarantino said: "I didn't go out of my way to do a rip-off of "The Killing", but I did think of it as my 'Killing', my take on that kind of heist movie." The film's plot was suggested by the 1952 film "Kansas City Confidential". Additionally, Joseph H. Lewis's 1955 film "The Big Combo" and Sergio Corbucci's 1966 Spaghetti Western "Django" inspired the scene where a police officer is tortured in a chair. Tarantino has denied that he plagiarized with "Reservoir Dogs" and instead said that he does homages. Having the main characters named after colors (Mr. Pink, White, Brown, etc.) was first seen in the 1974 film "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three". The film also contains key elements similar to those found in Ringo Lam's 1987 film "City on Fire".