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   W.R. Burnett. The Asphalt Jungle is a gripping tale of the planning and execution of a jewellery store heist in a dark and corrupt Midwestern metropolis. Set amid a seedy urban wasteland of crooks, killers and con-artists, the various members of the gang are steadily undone by personal obsessions, double-crossing and cruel fate. First published ...

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   Jan 1, 1984 · Paperback. $49.99 12 Used from $40.10 1 Collectible from $350.00. Mass Market Paperback. $19.99. W.R. Burnett's The Asphalt Jungle unfolds in short, vivid bursts of atmosphere and character -- a tough and seemingly artless kind of American fiction that reaches out from another era. Yet the novel still slices to the bone in its depiction of the ...

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   • Publish Year: 1968

   • Author: William Riley Burnett
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   The asphalt jungle, Hardcover – January 1, 1968. W.R. Burnett's The Asphalt Jungle unfolds in short, vivid bursts of atmosphere and character -- a tough and seemingly artless kind of American fiction that reaches out from another era. Yet the novel still slices to the bone in its depiction of the duplicity and corruption that undoes a group ...

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   The Asphalt Jungle. A jewel heist is devised by Doc Reimenschneider, a master criminal who has just been released from prison and will require the involvement of a number of people--including the muscle and itinerant hood named Dix, an overgrown country boy, and the fence, a successful but sleazy lawyer named Alonzo Emmerich.

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   May 5, 2022 · The Asphalt Jungle is a gripping and fast paced meander through the darkened alleyways of a post-war mid-western city with the pulpy feel of late 1940s/early 1950s crime fiction and well worth delving into

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   Apr 7, 2022 · An illustration of an open book. Books. An illustration of two cells of a film strip. ... The asphalt jungle by Burnett, W. R. (William Riley), 1899-1982. Publication ...

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   Is the Asphalt Jungle based on a true story?

   • The Asphalt Jungle is a 1950 film noir about a major heist that goes off as planned, until bad luck and double crosses cause everything to unravel. Directed by John Huston. Written by Ben Maddow and John Huston, based on the novel by W.R. Burnett. Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman.

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   Is the Asphalt Jungle a good movie?

   • Film noir puts its focus squarely on the seedier aspects of society, but The Asphalt Jungle found a clever way to show other perspectives as well. When a bank heist goes off according to plan, the only thing that can stop the criminals is double crosses, and a fair amount of police investigation.

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   Who is the director of the Asphalt Jungle?

   • The Asphalt Jungle. (1950.) Director: John Huston. (MGM.) Bennett, P., Hickman A., Wall P. (2007.) “Film Noir” in Film Studies: The Essential Resource. (London: Routledge).

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   Is the Asphalt Jungle a heist movie?

   • Critics Consensus: The Asphalt Jungle is an expertly told crime story with attention paid to the crime and characters in equal measure. John Huston’s trend-setting 1950 heist flick... ... essentially launched the heist film as a genre of its own and set the blueprint that all subsequent heist dramas built upon.

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    Jul 1, 2022 · Moving to Chicago in 1927, he developed an interest in gangsters which prompted him to write his first noir novel, Little Caesar, in 1929. Soon after that overnight success, Burnett moved to Los Angeles, eventually writing 36 novels—including High Sierra and The Asphalt Jungle—and 60 screenplays, as well as songs, plays and short stories.