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The Asphalt Jungle(1950)

  • Genre:
    • Drama
    • Thriller
    • Action
  • Director:
    • John Huston

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.

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Written by them00ch on 27.07.2010

#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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