tt0042208 The Asphalt Jungle (1950)Director : John Huston

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Genre : Crime, Film-Noir, Drama

Cast : (Complete credited cast) , Sterling Hayden as Dix Handley , Louis Calhern as Alonzo D. Emmerich , Jean Hagen as Doll Conovan , James Whitmore as Gus Minissi , Sam Jaffe as Doc Erwin Riedenschneider , John McIntire as Police Commissioner Hardy , Marc Lawrence as Cobby , Barry Kelley as Lt. Ditrich , Anthony Caruso as Louis Ciavelli , Teresa Celli as Maria Ciavelli , Marilyn Monroe as Angela Phinlay , William 'Wee Willie' Davis as Timmons (as William Davis) , Dorothy Tree as May Emmerich , Brad Dexter as Bob Brannom , John Maxwell as Dr. Swanson

Plot : A key heist pops since planned, till terrible chance also twin half-breeds give birth to all to unravel.

Run Time : 112 min

Country : USA

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Language : English | German

Filming Locations : Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Company : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Trivia : The musical scoring (by Miklós Rózsa) is very scant, going on solitary as the monolithic titles, carrying on completed the opportunity string wakeful to the usher where Handley enters the cafe, with at that time earnings various 107 minutes soon as soon as Handley with Doll go back to his boyhood farm. Total scoring without problems not wakeful to 6 minutes.

Goofs : Crew or furniture visible: When Doll was encouraging the incapacitated Dix into the doctor’s office, the shadow of the camera is detected at it move across her back.

Tag Lines : The City Under the City

Plot Summary : ‘Doc’ Riedenschneider, legendary transgression ‘brain’ without difficulty out of prison, has a splendid finances since a million-dollar burglary. To tear it off, he staff safecracker Louis, driver Gus, pecuniary backer Emmerich, as nonetheless as strong-arm gentleman Dix Handley. At primarily the finances perform such as clockwork, except minute twists of fate accumulate as nonetheless as each husband proves to submit to his own deadly weakness. In the setting is a pervasive, covered-in-dusty urban malaise.

Doc Erwin Riedenschneider has merely been unchained indulge in penal complex in addition to right away attempts out economic succor because a heist which he has been plotting, the robbery of a jewellery store. He puts as one a categorization of masses consisting of Dix Handley, a rough guy, Gus, a pub owner in addition to Louis Ciavelli, an order man. The robbery is a triumph in addition to Dix in addition to Doc get the jewels to their buyer, Alonzo ‘Lon’ Emmerich. Unfortunately, Emmerich achieves not taste the wealth because them; he was hopeful to troth able to coerce the array into collapsing him the jewels less than the fake pretence of fencing them. He may at that time troth able to promote it one another himself plus the collaborate with of his problem partner, Bob Brannom…

Doc Riedenschneider is standard inside the offense globe for the raison d’être that human being meticulous inside the envisaging of his capers. Just unchained enjoys jail, he has anything he considers his end caper mapped out, succeeding which he intentions on retiring to Mexico City. A jewel heist, he estimations the seize will troth inside way over $1 million, ample for the raison d’être that his retirement furthermore the fee to the conclude lot those involved. It will want the help of a duo of men, one among whom is to troth the financier. He turns to lawyer Lon Emmerich for the raison d’être that the money, desiring his colleague bookie, Cobby, on Emmerich’s capability to do the job. Doc furthermore enlists a minute term hood, Dix Handley, who he meets at Cobby’s having a bet parlor, to troth one among the kinskith and kin to keep out the valid heist. Although he counts on the change enjoys Emmerich, he doesn’t in truth consider him. As the heist is taken out, its execution is not in the instruct of Doc’s meticulous plan. As each distinctive headings his flee along furthermore Doc interpreting the loot, the observe are on their tail. The half-breeds with duple half-breeds between each of those individuals, who are sooner or later out to protect them with their own wisdom of anything is eminent to them, might variety the fragile amorous affairs between the crooks with therefore the heist occur apart.

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