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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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- Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
- John Huston
- 1950-05-12
May 28, 2021 · The Asphalt Jungle is a 1950 American FILM NOlR heist film directed by John Huston. Based on the 1949 novel of the same name by W. R. Burnett, it tells the story of a jewel robbery in a Midwestern city. The film stars Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern and Jean Hagen and features James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe, and John McIntire.
- May 28, 2021
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The Asphalt Jungle is an expertly told crime story with attention paid to the crime and characters in equal measure. Recently released from prison, Dix Handley (Sterling Hayden) concocts a plan...
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- Sterling Hayden
- John Huston
- Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Credits. 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.
Doc Erwin Riedenschneider has just been released from prison and immediately seeks out financial backing for a heist which he has been plotting, the robbery of a jewelry store. He puts together a group of men consisting of Dix Handley, a tough guy, Gus, a bar owner, and Louis Ciavelli, a family man.