The Asphalt Jungle
1950 film by John Huston / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Asphalt Jungle is a 1950 American heist film noir directed and co-written by John Huston, and starring Sterling Hayden and Louis Calhern, with Jean Hagen, James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe, John McIntire, and Marilyn Monroe in one of her earliest roles.[4] Based on the 1949 novel of the same name by W. R. Burnett, it tells the story of a jewel robbery in a Midwestern city.
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| Directed by | John Huston |
| Screenplay by | Ben Maddow John Huston |
| Based on | The Asphalt Jungle 1949 novel by W. R. Burnett |
| Produced by | Arthur Hornblow Jr. |
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| Cinematography | Harold Rosson |
| Edited by | George Boemler |
| Music by | Miklós Rózsa |
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| Distributed by | Loew's Inc. |
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Running time | 112 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.2 million[2][3] |
| Box office | $2.1 million |
Produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the film was released on May 12, 1950. It was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, and Huston won a National Board of Review Award for his direction. At the 1950 Venice Film Festival, Huston was nominated for the Golden Lion and Sam Jaffe won the Best Actor Award.
Retrospective reviews of the film have been highly positive, with several critics describing it as one of the most influential works in the crime film genre,[5] and one of John Huston's best films.[6] The film spawned a television series of the same name, which aired on ABC in 1961.
In 2008, The Asphalt Jungle was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[7][8]