The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
The City Under the City
Director: John Huston · Writers: Ben Maddow, John Huston
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
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Director
John Huston
Cast
Sterling Hayden
Dix Handley 
Louis Calhern
Alonzo D. Emmerich 
Jean Hagen
Doll Conovan 
James Whitmore
Gus Minissi 
Sam Jaffe
Doc Erwin Riedenschneider 
John McIntire
Police Commissioner Hardy 
Marc Lawrence
Cobby 
Barry Kelley
Lieutenant Ditrich 
Anthony Caruso
Louis Ciavelli 
Teresa Celli
Maria Ciavelli 
Marilyn Monroe
Angela Phinlay 
William 'Wee Willie' Davis
Timmons User Reviews (1)
Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit. Out of MGM, The Asphalt Jungle is directed by John Huston and based on the novel of the same name by W.R. Burnett. It stars Sterling Hayden, Jean Hagen, Sam Jaffe, Louis Calhern, James Whitmore, Teresa Celli, and in a minor but important role, Marilyn Monroe. Miklós Rózsa scores the music and Harold Rosson photographs it in black & white. Plot sees Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider (Jaffe) leave prison and quickly assemble a gang to execute a long in gestation jewellery heist. However, with suspicion rife and fate waiting to take a hand, the carefully constructed caper starts to come apart at the seams. John Huston liked a tough movie, having given film noir in America a jump start with The Maltese Falcon in 1941, he also that same year adapted W.R. Burnett's novel High Sierra. Bur…
