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Item details

Date

Tuesday, August 25, 2015 7:00PM

Name

The Asphalt Jungle

Description

Prices: $10 Orchestra / $20 Loge

The Granada Theatre Presents
Crime Fiction in Film Series
THE ASPHALT JUNGLE (1950)

Director: John Huston
Writers: Ben Maddow, and John Huston, from the novel by W.R. Burnett
Starring: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, and Marilyn Monroe
Music by: Miklós Rózsa
Genre: Film Noir
Length: 112min

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.

Starring in what was a minor but key role, this is one of the films that launched Marilyn Monroe’s career. This classic caper film was nominated for four Academy Awards, and also stars Sterling Hayden, Jean Hagen, Sam Jaffe, Louis Calhern, and James Whitmore.





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