Asphalt Jungle

Name: Asphalt Jungle
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Released: 1950-06-01
Rating: 4.20
Cast: Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore, Sterling Hayden

– In this thriller of escalating violence, four young girls head out on a camping trip. But the trip b..

Type:

TVSeries

Rating:

4.20 / 10

Release Year:

1950

In this thriller of escalating violence, four young girls head out on a camping trip. But the trip becomes tense when they cross paths with a couple of leering backwoodsmen who want the campers out.

Styles:

Sexy

Producing Country:

USA

Genre:

Action

Release Date:

01 Jun 1950

Language:

English, German

MPAA Content-Rating:

Passed

Directed by:

John Huston

Story Written By:

John Huston, Ben Maddow, W.R. Burnett

Main Actors:

Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore, Sterling Hayden

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.

Awards:

Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 10 nominations.

Production Company:

WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database:

7.9/10

Rotten Tomatoes:

97%

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