The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

112 min · Caper-Movie, Crime, Film Noir, drama film, film noir, heist film

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Directors

John Huston

Cast

Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe, John McIntire, Marc Lawrence, Barry Kelley, Anthony Caruso, Teresa Celli, Marilyn Monroe, William "Wee Willie" Davis, Dorothy Tree, Brad Dexter, John Maxwell

The story

Criminal mastermind "Doc" Erwin Riedenschneider, freshly released from prison, visits a bookie named Cobby in an unnamed Midwestern river city to plan a jewel robbery. He seeks $50,000 to hire three men—a safecracker, a driver and a hooligan. Cobby arranges a meeting between Doc and Alonzo Emmerich, a high-society lawyer and known fixer.

Catalogue themes and tags

Jewelry, Jewelry Heist, Safe Cracker, Star-Rechtsanwalt, Verbrecherin, häftlinge, Überfall, Crime Fiction, Thriller, Gangster Film, Heist, Caper story, Black-and-white, Drama, Crime Thriller, Film noir

Genres

Caper-Movie, Crime, Film Noir, drama film, film noir, heist film

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