The Asphalt Jungle

The Asphalt Jungle is a 1950 film noir directed by John Huston. The heist film is based on the 1949 novel of the same name by W. R. Burnett and stars an ensemble cast including Sterling Hayden, Jean Hagen, Sam Jaffe, Louis Calhern, James Whitmore, and, in a minor but key role, Marilyn Monroe, an unknown at the time who was pictured but not mentioned on the posters.

When criminal mastermind Erwin Doc Riedenschneider Sam Jaffe is released from prison after seven years, he immediately goes to see a bookie named Cobby Marc Lawrence in an unnamed Midwest river city, who arranges a meeting with Alonzo Emmerich Louis Calhern, a highprofile lawyer. Emmerich listens with interest to Docs plan to steal jewelry worth a million dollars or more. Doc needs 50,000 to hire three mena box man safecracker, a driver, and a hooliganto help him pull off the caper. Emmerich agrees to provide the money, then suggests that he not one or more fences assume the responsibility for disposing of the loot.Doc first hires Louie Ciavelli Anthony Caruso, a professional safecracker. Ciavelli only trusts Gus Minissi James Whitmore, a hunchbacked diner owner, as the getaway driver. The final member of the gang is Dix Handley Sterling Hayden, a friend of Gus. Dix explains his ultimate goal to Doll Conovan Jean Hagen, who is in love with him. His dream is to buy back the horse farm that his father lost during the Great Depression. Dix, however, just keeps losing his illgotten gains betting on the horses via Cobby. This job would pay him the amount he needs. ........

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