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Warner Home Video
Asphalt Jungle, The
Director
John Huston
Classification
PG
Genres
Drama
DVD Relese Date
1950
Description
Tension builds as a bunch of small-time losers gather for a jewel heist. "Doc" Riedenschneider has returned from prison with a plan for the million dollar theft. Financing is handled by Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer. Also runnign with Doc are driver Gus Missini and Dix Handley. Although the robbery goes off as planned, the thieves soon have a falling-out.
Cast
James Whitmore, Jean Hagen, Louis Calhern, Sterling Hayden
Quotes
Doc Riedenschneider: Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit. Police Commissioner Hardy: People are being cheated, robbed, murdered, raped. And that goes on 24 hours a day, every day in the year. And that's not exceptional, that's usual. It's the same in every city in the modern world. But suppose we had no police force, good or bad. Suppose we had... just silence. Nobody to listen, nobody to answer. The battle's finished. The jungle wins. The predatory beasts take over.