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Directed by John Huston • 1950 • United States. Starring Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen. In a smog-choked city somewhere in the American Midwest, an aging criminal mastermind, newly released from prison, hatches a plan for a million-dollar jewel heist and draws a wealthy lawyer and a cherry-picked trio of outlaws into his ...
Led by an aging professional, a gang of thieves discover betrayal and death following a successful jewel heist. Directed by Academy Award- winner John Huston...
Asphalt Jungle, The, American film noir caper, released in 1950, that was adapted from W.R. Burnett’s novel about an ambitious jewel robbery orchestrated by a gang of eccentric criminals. Immediately after being released from prison, “Doc” Riedenschneider (played by Sam Jaffe ) teams with corrupt lawyer “Lon” Emmerich ( Louis Calhern ) to rob a jewelry store.
Directed by John Huston • 1950 • United States. Starring Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen. In a smog-choked city somewhere in the American Midwest, an aging criminal mastermind, newly released from prison, hatches a plan for a million-dollar jewel heist and draws a wealthy lawyer and a cherry-picked trio of outlaws into his ...
The Asphalt Jungle is a brilliantly conceived and executed anatomy of a crime -- or, as director John Huston and scripter Ben Maddow put it, "a left-handed form of human endeavor." Recently paroled master criminal Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe), with funding from crooked attorney Emmerich (Louis Calhern), gathers several crooks together in Cincinnati for a Big Caper.
19 de mar. de 2017 · The Asphalt Jungle est un film noir classique par son désespoir et son sentiment d’aliénation mais il marque également une étape importante dans la carrière de Huston. Après ce film, Huston s’intéressa davantage à l’adaptation cinématographique d’œuvres littéraires classiques comme The Red Badge of Courage (La Charge victorieuse) , Moby Dick et The Night of the Iguana (La ...
The Asphalt Jungle is an intriguing story of a million-dollar jewel heist in a bleak and nameless mid-western city from the director of such hard-boiled classics as The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948), and Key Largo (1948). Based on the novel by W.T. Burnett, The Asphalt Jungle offered moviegoers in 1950 a new view of crime. During the 1930s, the crime saga had ...
