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The Asphalt Jungle is a 1950 American heist film noir directed and co-written by John Huston, and starring Sterling Hayden and Louis Calhern, with Jean Hagen, James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe, John McIntire, and Marilyn Monroe in one of her earliest roles.
The Asphalt Jungle: Directed by John Huston. With Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore. A major heist goes off as planned, but then double crosses, bad luck and solid police work cause everything to unravel.
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The Asphalt Jungle is an expertly told crime story with attention paid to the crime and characters in equal measure. Read Critics Reviews
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Asphalt Jungle, The, American film noir caper, released in 1950, that was adapted from W.R. Burnett’s novel about an ambitious jewel robbery orchestrated by a gang of eccentric criminals. Immediately after being released from prison, “Doc” Riedenschneider (played by Sam Jaffe) teams with corrupt.
In a smog-choked city somewhere in the American Midwest, an aging criminal mastermind, newly released from prison, hatches a plan for a million-dollar jewel heist and draws a wealthy lawyer and a cherry-picked trio of outlaws into his carefully devised but inevitably doomed scheme.
Dec 13, 2016 · Yet even if The Asphalt Jungle was seen in its own day as a model of nail-biting suspense, it comes across now as a most Chekhovian film noir, steeped in a mood of regret even before the action begins and proceeding almost gently on its inevitable downward course.
