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Asphalt Jungle, The, American film noir caper, released in 1950, that was adapted from W.R. Burnett’s novel about an ambitious jewel robbery orchestrated by a gang of eccentric criminals. Immediately after being released from prison, “Doc” Riedenschneider (played by Sam Jaffe ) teams with corrupt lawyer “Lon” Emmerich ( Louis Calhern ) to rob a jewelry store.
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 to ...
Asphalt Jungle, The (1950) -- (Movie Clip) You Gotta Learn To Carry Matches Stick-up man Dix (Sterling Hayden), laying low after beating a legitimate arrest, greets anxious Doll (Jean Hagen), whom he doesn’t know well, except that the clip-joint where she worked got raided, early in John Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle, 1950, from the W.R. Burnett novel.
Directed by John Huston • 1950 • United States. Starring Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen. 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 ...
The Asphalt Jungle is a brilliantly conceived and executed anatomy of a crime -- or, as director John Huston and scripter Ben Maddow put it, "a left-handed form of human endeavor." Recently paroled master criminal Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe), with funding from crooked attorney Emmerich (Louis Calhern), gathers several crooks together in Cincinnati for a Big Caper.
The Asphalt Jungle es una película estadounidense de 1950 dirigida por John Huston y con Sterling Hayden, Jean Hagen, Sam Jaffe, Louis Calhern, James Whitmore y Marilyn Monroe en los papeles principales.
28 de may. de 2021 · In 2008, The Asphalt Jungle was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". ...
