THE ASPHALT JUNGLE [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1950
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
• Plot: In a smog-choked city somewhere in the American Midwest, an aging criminal mastermind, newly released from prison, hatches a plan for a million-dollar jewel heist and draws a wealthy lawyer and a cherry-picked trio of outlaws into his carefully devised but inevitably doomed scheme. Anchored by an abundance of nuanced performances from a gifted ensemble—including a tight-jawed Sterling Hayden and a sultry Marilyn Monroe in her breakout role—this gritty crime classic by John Huston climaxes in a meticulously detailed anatomy of a robbery that has reverberated through the genre ever since. An uncommonly naturalistic view of a seamy underworld, The Asphalt Jungle painstakingly depicts the calm professionalism and toughness of its gangster heroes while evincing a remarkable depth of compassion for their all-too-human fragility, and it showcases a master filmmaker at the height of his powers.;
• Cast: Sterling Hayden, Helene Stanley, Joseph Darr Smith, J.J. Smith, J. Lewis Smith, Charles Sherlock, Jack Shea, James Seay, Tim Ryan, Henry Rowland, Raymond Roe, Kerry O'Day, Alberto Morin, Ralph Montgomery, Howard M. Mitchell, Patricia Miller, Strother Martin, Fred Marlow, Jack Stoney, Ray Teal, Leah Wakefield, Harlan Warde, Chet Brandenburg, David Bond, Ray Bennett, Mary Anderson, David Clarke, Mack Chandler, Jean Carter, Frank Cady, Ethel Lyons, Gene Coogan, Jeff York, Harry Cody, Wilson Wood, Victor Wood, Judith Wood, Constance Weiler, William Washington, Jack Warden, Harry G. Butcher, Benny Burt, George Lynn, Thomas Browne Henry, Anthony Caruso, Barry Kelley, Marc Lawrence, John McIntire, Sam Jaffe, James Whitmore, Jean Hagen, Louis Calhern, Teresa Celli, Marilyn Monroe, Eloise Hardt, Don Haggerty, William Haade, Fred Graham, Sol Gorss, Alex Gerry, Pat Flaherty, Gene Evans, Wesley Hopper, Ralph Dunn, Chuck Courtney, Henry Corden, John Cliff, Brad Dexter, Dorothy Tree, William 'Wee Willie' Davis, John Crawford, John Maxwell, John Huston, W.R. Burnett, Ben Maddow, Arthur Hornblow Jr., Harold Rosson, George Boemler, Miklós Rózsa, Douglas Shearer, Robert B. Lee, Cedric Gibbons, Randall Duell
• Director: John Huston
• Runtime: 1:52
• Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. (MGM), Turner Entertainment Co., Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie