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Genres:
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Crime /
Film-Noir /
Drama /
Music
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Director:
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John Huston
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Actors:
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Louis Calhern,
Sam Jaffe,
Barry Kelley,
Jean Hagen,
Teresa Celli,
Sterling Hayden,
James Whitmore,
John McIntire,
Marc Lawrence,
Anthony Caruso
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Duration:
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112 min.
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Rating:
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(7.9/10)96.5
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Plot Summary:
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Doc Erwin Riedenschneider has right-minded been released from prison and without hesitation seeks out pecuniary endorsement as a replacement for a heist which he has been plotting, the hold-up of a gems store. He puts together a group of men consisting of Dix Handley, a cold guy, Gus, a keep out owner and Louis Ciavelli, a order geezer. The rip-off is a prosperity and Dix and Doc subsume the jewels to their buyer, Alonzo 'Lon' Emmerich. Unfortunately, Emmerich does not have the flush on the side of them; he was hoping to be able to coerce the group into giving him the jewels secondary to the ... deceitful pretence of fencing them. He would then be expert to drummer them himself with the help of his province wife, Bob Brannom...
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The Asphalt Jungle
A exemplary heist movie, and solitary of Huston's finest, this adaptation of WR Burnett's novel in which a gang of thieves...
The Asphalt Jungle
Shot with an practically documentary realism, this rare film noir from director John Huston continues to influence heist movies today. It has the whole shooting match you could ask of a thriller. There's a scintillating machinate (co-scripted by means of Ben Maddow and Huston from WR Burnett's fresh), in which the perfect plan unravels with compelling inevitability; a influential about from Oscar-nominated Sam Jaffe as a tough engineer; absolutely convincing ensemble playing from his bungling crowd (including Worthy Hayden and Anthony Caruso); and superb support from Jean Hagen and Marilyn Monroe as molls. Annex Miklos Rozsa's atmospheric score and Harold Rosson's arenose photography and you keep a chef-d'oeuvre.
The Asphalt Jungle
Remade three times (as Cairo, Cool Breeze and The Badlanders), as good fettle as providing the gusto against a uncivil-lived 1960 TV show, The Asphalt Jungle is nothing if not influential, ensuring the plot has become so buddy-buddy you could be forgiven assuming you've already seen it when you haven't. A malefactor conceive, Doc Erwin Reidenschneider (Jaffe), convinces a small time hoodlum known as Cobby (Lawrence) and his corrupt King's counsel associate 'Lon' Emmerich (Calhern) to van the money championing him to carry out a daring jewelry descend upon. Even rather than the task is done, the bankrupt Lon starts figuring out ways to double-hybrid his associates. Once the jewels are acquired things quickly disintegrate. Louis the vault-breaker (Caruso) takes...
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