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 until a stray bullet kills one of the men.
As they scramble to pick up the pieces after the theft, the men let their greed get the best of them while entangling themselves in webs of deceit, treachery and murder.
Cast: Sterling Hayden, Marilyn Monroe, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe, John McIntire, Barry Kelley, Anthony Caruso, Teresa Celli, Marilyn Monroe, William "Wee illie" Davis, Dorothy Tree, Brad Dexter, John Maxwell as Dr. Swanson
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Title: The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Directed by: John Huston
Date of birth: 5 august 1906, Nevada, Missouri, USA
Date of death: 28 august 1987, Middletown, Rhode Island, USA
Writing credits:
Ben Maddow, John Huston, W. R. Burnett (1949 novel)
Music by: Miklós Rózsa
Country: United States
Language: English
Color: Black & White
Runtime: 112 min.