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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.
La jungla de asfalto película dirigida por John Huston y protagonizada por Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern y Jean Hagen. Año: 1950. Tema: Atracos. Slogan: La ciudad bajo la ciudad Sinopsis: La meticulosa planificación de un atraco a una joyería, por parte de una banda de delincuentes, le sirve a Huston para ofrecer un poderoso relato lleno de intensidad, amén de un realista e insuperable ...
The Asphalt Jungle is an intriguing story of a million-dollar jewel heist in a bleak and nameless mid-western city from the director of such hard-boiled classics as The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948), and Key Largo (1948). Based on the novel by W.T. Burnett, The Asphalt Jungle offered moviegoers in 1950 a new view of crime.
The Asphalt Jungle. Led by an aging professional, a gang of thieves discover betrayal and death following a successful jewel heist. Directed by Academy Award- winner John Huston ("The African Queen," "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre"), this classic crime thriller stars Sterling Hayden ("Dr. Strangelove," "The Godfather") and Oscar-nominees ...
The Asphalt Jungle est un film contrasté, non seulement dans le sens où il s’agit d’un film noir dont le clair-obscur fut une composante indispensable, mais aussi comment Huston nous montre la confrontation et les oppositions - celle des polices et des ...
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.
