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1948
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Apr 1, 2019 Full Review Variety Staff Variety The Asphalt Jungle is a study in crime, hard-hitting in its expose of the underworld. Ironic realism is striven for and achieved in the writing ...
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- Sterling Hayden
- John Huston
- Metro Goldwyn Mayer
The Asphalt Jungle is a study in crime, hard-hitting in its expose of the underworld. Ironic realism is striven for and achieved in the writing, production and direction. Full Review | Nov 3, 2008
- Synopsis
- Picture 9/10
- Audio 6/10
- Extras 9/10
- Closing
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. Anchored by an abundance of nuanced performances from a gifted ense...
In a welcome surprise Criterion presents John Huston’s influential crime drama The Asphalt Jungleon Blu-ray in its original aspect ratio of 1.37:1. The new 1080p/24hz high-definition presentation comes from a new 2K restoration scanned from the original 35mm negative. Yet again the Warner/Criterion partnership pays off, with Criterion delivering an...
The audio, presented in lossless PCM 1.0 mono, is fine though shows its age. Dialogue is clear throughout and voices have some decent fidelity behind them, but there can be the slightest edge at times, and the same can be said about the music. There’s also some audible background noise, including a hiss that gets a bit louder at certain points. Sti...
The film gets a rather stacked special edition, managing to also carry over the supplements from the Warner DVD, like a 56-second archival clip of John Huston talking about the film (the first second or two is inaudible, though) and then an audio commentaryby Drew Casper. The Huston clip, though not at all insightful, is fine. The commentary, on th...
Criterion closes off the year on a very strong note with their Blu-ray of The Asphalt Jungle. It provides a stunner of a presentation and an impressive number of supplements, including the previously hard to come by documentary Pharos of Chaos. It’s a superb special edition. BUY AT:
Budget. $1.2 million [2] [3] Box office. $2.1 million. 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. [4] Based on the 1949 novel of the same ...
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Dec 13, 2016 · The Asphalt Jungle’s setting is urban, but its scenes are mostly interiors, airless rooms accessed by way of airless corridors and stairways. The little we see of the unnamed Midwestern city where the film takes place was filmed in Cincinnati, but after the opening sequence, where we follow Dix as he evades a prowl car in the early-morning ...
The Asphalt Jungle - Metacritic. 1950. Approved. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) 1 h 52 m. Play Sound. Summary A major heist goes off as planned, but then double crosses, bad luck and solid police work cause everything to unravel. Crime. Drama.
Oct 31, 2006 · Exciting and tautly directed – the lengthy robbery scenes are exemplary – it’s moody to the dying frame, emphasised by Harold Rosson ’s lighting of trash-filled back-alleys and half-lit ...
