The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Released: 23 May 1950
Runtime: 112 min
Rated: PASSED
Director: John Huston
Writer(s): Ben Maddow (screen play), John Huston (screen play), W.R. Burnett (from a novel by)
Actors: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore
Awards: Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 11 nominations.
IMDB Ratings: 7.9
Plot: When the intelligent criminal Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider is released from prison, he seeks a fifty thousand-dollar investment from the bookmaker Cobby to recruit a small gang of specialists for a million-dollar heist of jewels from a jewelry. Doc is introduced to the lawyer Alonzo D. Emmerich that offers to finance the whole operation and buy the gems immediately after the burglary. Doc hires the safecracker Louis Ciavelli, the driver Gus Minissi and the gunman Dix Handley to the heist. His plan works perfectly but bad luck and betrayals compromise the steps after the heist and the gangsters need to flee from the police.
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