The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

The Asphalt Jungle (1950) 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.

Genre: Crime , Drama , Film-Noir

Actor: Sterling Hayden , Louis Calhern , Jean Hagen

Director: John Huston

Country: English , German

Release: 12 May 1950

Duration: 112 min

Quality: HD

7.9