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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.
Feb 12, 2006 · The Asphalt Jungle is the greatest, most influential heist movie, and has a superb performance from Sam Jaffe as the middle-aged German-born criminal mastermind behind a million-dollar jewel...
Dec 16, 2016 · In the clip below, excerpted from a program on our release, cinematographer John Bailey analyzes the emotional power of The Asphalt Jungle’s visual style, which brings a new level of psychological rawness to the formal elements of film noir.
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Apr 29, 2007 · Arguably one of John Huston’s two or three masterpieces, The Asphalt Jungle is a tautly made, realistically detailed heist crime film that boasts fine portraiture of a dozen man, played by Hollywood’s best character actors. Grade: A (***** out of *****) The Asphalt Jungle. Theatrical release poster.
Mar 11, 2017 · The Asphalt Jungle is a model of elegant construction, street-level tragedy, and poetic justice, a film that both embraces the romance of the criminal code and acknowledges the mercenary impulses of outsiders and upstarts who have no code.
Dec 10, 2016 · Synopsis. 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.
By Peter Heath Becker. Feb 1, 1988. Share. The Asphalt Jungle is an intriguing story of a million-dollar jewel heist in a bleak and nameless mid-western city from the director of such hard-boiled classics as The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948), and Key Largo (1948).
