The Asphalt Jungle - Region 1 DVD

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Plenty of great characters here! You have the old, accomplished fat-cat sleezey defense lawyer, the unflappably cordial German criminal mastermind, the tough-guy with just enough heart to make you root for him, the safecracking family man, the disfugured wheel man, and the weasily bookie, all of whom come together to pull off the heist of the century. But a doubl... read more

Description: A major heist goes off as planned until bad luck and double crosses cause everything to unravel. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 07/06/2004 Starring: Sterling Hayden Marilyn Monroe Run time: 112 minutes Rating: Pg Director: John Huston Amazon.com essential video The dark urban world of The Asphalt Jungle is one of the essential destinations in film noir, but be warned: despite tough guy Sterling Hayden's dreams of bucolic escape, there is no way out. John Huston directed this superbly calibrated crime classic, which displays his usual wry appreciation of fringies and down-and-outers. This time the task for Huston' A major heist goes off as planned until bad luck and double crosses cause everything to unravel. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 07/06/2004 Starring: Sterling Hayden Marilyn Monroe Run time: 112 minutes Rating: Pg Director: John Huston

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The dark urban world of The Asphalt Jungle is one of the essential destinations in film noir, but be warned: despite tough guy Sterling Hayden's dreams of bucolic escape, there is no way out. John Huston directed this superbly calibrated crime classic, which displays his usual wry appreciation of fringies and down-and-outers. This time the task for Huston's eccentric ensemble is a jewel robbery, which--this being a Huston film--can't possibly work out as well as its plan. The cast includes Sam Jaffee, indelible as a criminal mastermind, and the pre-stardom Marilyn Monroe. Hayden plays the kind of mug he would revisit in Stanley Kubrick's The Killing, which is an informal homage to this film. And the film's look is definitive: both artful and gritty, it creates a noir landscape that traps its people just as surely as the tar pits trapped the dinosaurs. No wonder they call it noir. --Robert Horton

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