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Release Date: 2004-07-06, Rating: NR (Not Rated)

Nominations: Academy Awards (4), Golden Globe Awards (3). Nominee: Academy Awards, Best Supporting Actor, 1950, Sam Jaffe. Nominee: Academy Awards, Best Director, 1950, John Huston. Nominee: Academy Awards, Best Black and White Cinematography, 1950, Harold Hal Rosson. Nominee: Golden Globe Awards, Best Cinematography - Black and White, 1950, Harold Hal Rosson. Nominee: Academy Awards, Best Director, 1950, John Huston. Nominee: Academy Awards, Best Screenplay, 1950, Ben Maddow, John Huston....

Crime

A criminal mastermind assembles a team of professional crooks to pull off his biggest robbery yet. But after a series of mishaps and double crosses, the job quickly begins to go sour. Hayden stars as the hired heavy, Dix, who yearns to escape the crumbling metropolis and buy back his family farm; Monroe, in her first role to bring her widespread recognition, makes a memorable appearance as the doe-eyed mistress to a crooked financier. Credited for establishing the blueprint for the heist caper, The...

Tension builds as a bunch of small-time losers gather for a jewel heist. "Doc" Riedenschneider has returned from prison with a plan for the million dollar theft. Financing is handled by Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer. Also runnign with Doc are driver Gus Missini and Dix Handley. Although the robbery goes off as planned, the thieves soon have a falling- out. MPAA Rating: Not Rated

As in The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , director John Huston explores the feverish grab for the big score and how it unravels in The Asphalt Jungle , a renowned tale if dishonor among thieves whose cast includes San Jaffe as Doc and Sterling Hayden as Doc's unflappable gunsel. Louis Calhern portrays Emmerich, the shady lawyer for whom "crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor." And rising star Marilyn Monroe grabs everyone's attention as the doxie who briefly provides...

Member Rating: 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. Among those involved are Dix (Sterling Hayden), an impoverished hood who sees the upcoming jewel heist as...

Book Details BURNETT, W. R. The Asphalt Jungle. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1949. First edition. A very good book in a very good dust jacket. Wear at the extremities. Creasing to the rear panel. Small chip at the top of the jacket spine. Price clipped. Previous owner bookplate on front pastedown. Signed by the author on the front endpaper. [Book #24498] Price: $975.00 save 10%$877.50 View full size image See all items in Catalog 67 See all items in Catalog 69 See all items...

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Superb original one-sheet from the outstanding 1950 MGM film noir classic starring Sterling Hayden , Louis Calhern and Marilyn Monroe . Directed by John Huston . Condition:   Very Fine-Exceptional w/only minor imperfections. Size:   1-Sheet 27" x 41"

The Asphalt Jungle Suite, Theme from [Jazz Ensemble]