The Asphalt Jungle
1950 · TMDB 7.5
Directed by 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.
Why it matters
John Huston's meticulous anatomy of a jewel robbery, told from the planning through the unraveling. Its influence is so total that the genre has been quoting it for seventy-five years, often without knowing.
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Released
- 1950-05-12
- Studio
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- German
- TMDB score
- 7.5
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