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The Asphalt Jungle (1950)  link to The Asphalt Jungle on IMDb  

Number: 2391

poster The Asphalt Jungle

IMDb Rating:
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7.9/10 (19743 votes)

Country: USA, 112 minutes

Spoken Languages: English, German

Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Crime, Film-Noir

Director(s): John Huston

Video Codec: Unknown

Storyline:
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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Cast:

photo Sterling Hayden Sterling Hayden Dix Handley
photo Louis Calhern Louis Calhern Alonzo D. Emmerich
photo Jean Hagen Jean Hagen Doll Conovan
photo James Whitmore James Whitmore Gus Minissi
photo Sam Jaffe Sam Jaffe Doc Erwin Riedenschneider

Medium: Unknown,

Loaned: No

Aspect ratio: 4:3