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The Asphalt Jungle

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Drama
Release Date:January 1, 1950
Running time:112 minutes
Cast:Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe
Director:John Huston
Writer:Ben Maddow, W.R. Burnett

Description: Recently paroled master criminal Erwin Doc Riedenschneider gathers several crooks together in Cincinnati for a heist. The robbery is pulled off successfully, until an alert night watchman shoots the team's safecracker. From this point on, the meticulously planned crime begins to quickly fall apart.

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