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Director: John Huston / Screenplay: John Huston,
Ben Maddow, from the book "The Asphalt Jungle" by W.R. Burnett.
Actors and
characters
Sterling Hayden (Dix Handley), Louis Calhern
(Alonzo D. Emmerich), Jean Hagen (Doll Conovan),
James Whitmore (Gus Minissi), Sam Jaffe ("Doc"), Anthony Caruso (Louis Ciavelli),
Teresa Celli (Maria Ciavelli), Brad Dexter (Bob Brannom), Gene Evans
(Poliziotto), Barry Kelley (Dietrich), Marc Lawrence (Cobby), John Maxwell (Dr.
Swanson), John McIntire (Commissario Hardy), Marilyn Monroe (Angela Phinlay),
Dorothy Tree (May Emmerich)
Plot
Maybe the first movie about "the job of the life". Doc, "the professor" while in
prison planned a perfect robbery and when he exits he organizes the job. Doc is
extremely precise, each detail is studied and tested, and when the job starts
everything seems to proceed the right way, but for an unlucky coincidence just
at the end, all the robbers are captured or killed. Only Doc succeeds to escape,
but when he had entered a bar to take something before to disappear definitely,
he meets a girl and his boy-friend, and he stares there, to admire "the sweet
bird of youth", he knows that probably in this way his escape will end, but he
can't stop to watch ...
Soundtrack
Composed by Miklós
Rózsa, based on jazz and specifically be-bop style pieces. Many other
important soundtrack for Rózsa:The Thief of Bagdad, King Of The Kings, , Quo Vadis?, Ivanohe,
three times Oscar winner for Ben Hur (1959), The Private Life Of Sherlok Holmes
by
Billy Wilder (1971) and The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974).
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