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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.
The Asphalt Jungle is an expertly told crime story with attention paid to the crime and characters in equal measure. Read Critics Reviews
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.
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.
May 12, 2009 · Why THE ASPHALT JUNGLE is Essential: The Asphalt Jungle is a different kind of film noir from John Huston, director of The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Key Largo (1948), two key entries from the heyday of the classic noir period.
Written by John Chard on June 25, 2019. Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
