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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 ...
- $1.2 million
- Arthur Hornblow Jr.
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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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 ...
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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
Sydney Guilaroff. Makeup created by. Jack Dawn. 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.
Synopsis. A group of career criminals including Dix Handley (Sterling Hayden) is pulled together by a criminal mastermind Doc Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe) for a jewel heist and their contact for fencing the stolen goods is a corrupt lawyer Alonzo Emmerich (Louis Calhern) who plans to take the stolen take and escape to Europe.
