Saturday, February 7, 2009

The asphalt jungle (1950) - classic film noir directed by John Huston, starring Sam Jaffe, Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen and Marylin Monroe

Rating 7.8/10
Runtime: 112 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: John Huston
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042208/

Cast

Sam Jaffe ... Doc Erwin Riedenschneider
Sterling Hayden ... Dix Handley
Louis Calhern ... Alonzo D. 'Lon' Emmerich
Marilyn Monroe ... Angela Phinlay
Jean Hagen ... Doll Conovan
James Whitmore ... Gus Minissi
John McIntire ... Police Commissioner Hardy
Marc Lawrence ... 'Cobby' Cobb
Barry Kelley ... Det. Lt. Ditrich
Anthony Caruso ... Louis Ciavelli
Teresa Celli ... Maria Ciavelli

Description: When the intelligent criminal Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider is released from prison, he seeks a fifty thousand-dollar investment from the bookmaker Cobby to recruit a small gang of specialists for a million-dollar heist of jewels from a jewelry. Doc is introduced to the lawyer Alonzo D. Emmerich who offers to finance the whole operation and buy the gems immediately after the burglary. Doc hires the safe cracker Louis Ciavelli, the driver Gus Minissi and the gunman Dix Handley to the heist. His plan works perfectly but bad luck and betrayals compromise the steps after the heist and the gangsters need to flee from the police...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://fastupload.io/T7UTO4CBmAfpk7v/file


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.20 GB, 2800 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 658x480 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 148
Audio : 154/49 MB (main/commentary), 192/60 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1/1 channel, 0x55 = AC3/VORBIS, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English hearing impaired closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, French, Portuguese-Brazilian, Italian, Greek, Turkish, Dutch, Polish, Swedish, Finnish, Hebrew) posters and screenshots included


Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English and other is commentary by film historian Drew Casper. You can use VLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks (Audio => Audio track and switch to main audio track on Track 1, additional track on Track 2)

8 comments:

I.Want.To.Kill.The.Banks said...

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Anonymous said...

Many thanks for uploading this great movie.
Gabriel

Anonymous said...

I love how marylin is very prominant on the cover of the movie when sh eis only in 5 minutes of it. Great movie though, in spite of Marylin

-Buck

Anonymous said...

Thanks very much for this film.
It's very kind of you to make it available.

best wishes,

P

Anonymous said...

Thanks so much for making this movie available.

Very kind of you.

P

Anna said...

Thank you so very much for sharing!!

Anonymous said...

The easy-share links are corrupt. Can you please re-upload.

Thanks in advance.

Anonymous said...

thank you so much for the movie. you must have a very good taste in films!

andie