The Asphalt Jungle
1950 ‧ Noir/Crime ‧ 1h 52m
Recently released from prison, Dix Handley (Sterling Hayden) concocts a plan to steal $1 million in jewels. Dix gathers a team of small-time crooks, including a safecracker (Anthony Caruso) and a lawyer (Louis Calhern), and the heist is a success...
Release date: June 1950 (USA)
Director: John Huston
Screenplay: John Huston, W. R. Burnett, and Ben Maddow
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Loews Cineplex Entertainment
Adapted from: The Asphalt Jungle
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The Asphalt Jungle is a 1950 American crime movie directed by John Huston and was based on the 1949 novel of the same name by W. R. Burnett.