Sterling Hayden
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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. [4]
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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When the intelligent criminal Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider is released from prison, he seeks a fifty thousand-dollar investment from the bookmaker Cobby to recruit a small gang of specialists for a million-dollar heist of jewels from a jewelry.
The Asphalt Jungle. Released May 23, 1950 1h 52m Crime Drama List. 98% Tomatometer 40 Reviews 87% Popcornmeter 5,000+ Ratings. Recently released from prison, Dix Handley (Sterling Hayden)...
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The Asphalt Jungle. 1950 · 1 hr 53 min. TV-PG. Drama · Crime. Fresh out of prison, a career criminal plans an elaborate jewel heist that begins to unravel as the crooks involved reveal their true colors. Subtitles: English.
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.
The Asphalt Jungle. OSCARS® 4X nominee. A gang of small time crooks plots an elaborate jewel heist. 954. IMDb 7.8 1 h 52 min 1950 13+. Drama • Suspense • Exciting • Gritty. Rent. HD $3.59. Buy. HD $9.99. More purchase. options. Available to rent or buy. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
Dec 13, 2016 · Every heist movie, every tale of downbeat criminals coming together in a foredoomed conspiracy under the guidance of a professorial mastermind, carries echoes of Huston’s film, whose originality is perhaps now harder to discern because its elements have been so widely appropriated.
Overview. Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist. John Huston. Director, Screenplay. W.R. Burnett.
