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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.
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.
The Asphalt Jungle is an expertly told crime story with attention paid to the crime and characters in equal measure. Read Critics Reviews
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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.
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May 12, 2009 · Why THE ASPHALT JUNGLE is Essential: The Asphalt Jungle is a different kind of film noir from John Huston, director of The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Key Largo (1948), two key entries from the heyday of the classic noir period.
Out of MGM, The Asphalt Jungle is directed by John Huston and based on the novel of the same name by W.R. Burnett. It stars Sterling Hayden, Jean Hagen, Sam Jaffe, Louis Calhern, James Whitmore, Teresa Celli, and in a minor but important role, Marilyn Monroe.
