Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
Sterling Hayden
as Dix Handley
Louis Calhern
as Alonzo D. Emmerich
Jean Hagen
as Doll Conovan
Sam Jaffe
as Doc Erwin Riedenschneider
John McIntire
as Police Commissioner Hardy
Marilyn Monroe
as Angela Phinlay
Marc Lawrence
as Cobby
Anthony Caruso
as Louis Ciavelli
Dorothy Tree
as May Emmerich
Brad Dexter
as Bob Brannom
Review of The Asphalt Jungle · 1950
#couple of spoilers ahead#
John Huston’s “The Asphalt Jungle” is arguably the grand-daddy of all noir heist movies, and it reads like a dictionary of the underworld. Boxmen, getaway drivers, fences, hoodlums, bent cops, double-crossers, stoolies - the language of the heist movie was defined here
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