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The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

Filmnoir | 112 minutes
3,67 287 votes

Genre: Filmnoir / Crime

Duration: 112 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: John Huston

Stars: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern and Jean Hagen

IMDb score: 7,8 (31.422)

Releasedate: 12 May 1950

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The Asphalt Jungle plot

"The City Under the City"

Recently released on bail, top criminal Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider, funded by corrupt lawyer Alonzo D. Emmerich, gathers a number of crooks for a carefully planned major jewelry heist in Cincinnati. Doc's gang includes downtrodden intrepid criminal Dix Handley, pub owner and gambler Gus Minissi, professional safe-deposit boxer Louis Ciavelli and bookmaker Cobby, who acts as a courier between Emmerich and Doc.

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Alonzo D. Emmerich

Doll Conovan

Doc Erwin Riedenschneider

Police Commissioner Hardy

Lt. Ditrich

Louis Ciavelli

Maria Ciavelli

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Zinema (crew films)

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monroe.

And how beautiful she really was. Something you can clearly see in this movie.

An entertaining cast and a fun story. The crack itself is a bit thin, but fortunately the film has a lot of speed. The characters are also very nice.

The ending feels a bit like forced noir. But hey, you can't have everything in life. Nicely filmed too.

Very good.

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Woland

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The Asphalt Jungle turned out to be a classic heist movie. Not very surprising, especially considering that it was made during the Hays code, so that the final denouement is fairly revealed and so that the last half hour is a bit of waiting for the inevitable. But despite this, this is otherwise a solid crime film about a jeweler heist that initially succeeds, but in the aftermath of course everyone gets caught or dies. Time is taken to explain the participants, their backgrounds and their mutual deepening relationships, and ditto for the aftermath - the robbery itself is only a relatively short part of the film. And that works quite well, it gives a little more feeling with the characters anyway, who are also just well portrayed by a capable cast. With a beautiful young Marilyn Monroe in a supporting role. But it's just a shame that the second half of the film has become so predictable. Another movie that gets a bit spoiled by that damned Hays code.

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Bobbejaantje

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A heist film in which the focus is not so much on the heist as far as I'm concerned, but on the psychological framing of the characters. In the crime genre you had the well-known hard boiled school (Hammett, Chandler) at the time, but this film is based on a novella by WR Burnett who takes a more naturalistic approach to crime. And that is evident in this and other films based on Burnett's work (High Sierra, Little Caesar). In the course of the film, the criminals in Asphalt Jungle show their human vulnerability, dreams, frustrations and traumas under their crude facade. For example, lead role 'hooligan' Sterling Hayden comes across as a brute, but you learn from the film that there is in fact a hurt boy lurking in him, up to and including the touching finale. Mastermind Sam Jaffe, a man with several years on the clock, is once again taken over by a nostalgic longing for lost youth, which will even lead to his premature arrest. And so there is something to be said about every gang member. After the heist, the film unfolds like a series of miniature vignettes of each criminal. One of the highlights here is undoubtedly the contribution of Marilyn Monroe (in a supporting role). I understand John Huston perfectly when he pointed out that Monroe is an actress who can make an entrance when she leaves the room.
What contributes even more to the naturalistic and certainly the existential aspect of the film is the lack of a soundtrack. Miklos Rozsa may be announced in the opening credits but his contribution is limited to the beginning and end of the film if I have heard correctly. This contributes to a clinical, sometimes documentary approach to the heist and what follows. But then visually bathed in beautiful chiaroscuro lighting!

Masterful work.

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