The Asphalt Jungle

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1950-05-23

Languages:

English, German

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (16441 Reviews)

Director:

John Huston

Genres:

Crime Film-Noir Drama

Cast:

Sterling Hayden Louis Calhern Jean Hagen James Whitmore

Writer:

Ben Maddow (screen play)

John Huston (screen play)

W.R. Burnett (from a novel by)

Fullplot:

When the intelligent criminal Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider is released from prison, he seeks a fifty thousand-dollar investment from the bookmaker Cobby to recruit a small gang of specialists for a million-dollar heist of jewels from a jewelry. Doc is introduced to the lawyer Alonzo D. Emmerich that offers to finance the whole operation and buy the gems immediately after the burglary. Doc hires the safecracker Louis Ciavelli, the driver Gus Minissi and the gunman Dix Handley to the heist. His plan works perfectly but bad luck and betrayals compromise the steps after the heist and the gangsters need to flee from the police.

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