John Huston’s primal heist film is an almost perfect movie, with a score of unforgettable characterizations. A solid crime noir, it concerns itself with the human ironies in the ‘left handed form of human endeavor.’
The Asphalt Jungle
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 847
1950 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 112 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date December 13, 2016 /
Starring Sterling Hayden, Sam Jaffe, Louis Calhern, James Whitmore, Jean Hagen, John McIntire, Marc Lawrence, Barry Kelley, Anthony Caruso, Marilyn Monroe, Brad Dexter.
Cinematography Harold Rosson
Art Direction Randall Duell, Cedric Gibbons
Film Editor George Boemler
Original Music Miklos Rosza
Written by Ben Maddow and John Huston from the novel by W.R. Burnett
Produced by Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
Directed by John Huston
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Talk about a film that becomes only more enjoyable with each viewing… John Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle is the Singin’ in the Rain of noir masterpieces.
The Asphalt Jungle
Blu-ray
The Criterion Collection 847
1950 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 112 min. / available through The Criterion Collection / Street Date December 13, 2016 /
Starring Sterling Hayden, Sam Jaffe, Louis Calhern, James Whitmore, Jean Hagen, John McIntire, Marc Lawrence, Barry Kelley, Anthony Caruso, Marilyn Monroe, Brad Dexter.
Cinematography Harold Rosson
Art Direction Randall Duell, Cedric Gibbons
Film Editor George Boemler
Original Music Miklos Rosza
Written by Ben Maddow and John Huston from the novel by W.R. Burnett
Produced by Arthur Hornblow, Jr.
Directed by John Huston
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
Talk about a film that becomes only more enjoyable with each viewing… John Huston’s The Asphalt Jungle is the Singin’ in the Rain of noir masterpieces.
- 11/29/2016
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Sunday's overcrowded with great TV, but what to watch the rest of the time? Each Monday, we bring you this guide to five worthy -- or at least noteworthy -- highlights from the other six days of the week. Directed by Jean Negulesco TCM, Monday, April 30th at 8pm Turner Classic Movies is showing a marathon of four early films from the Romanian-born Jean Negulesco, better known for his later, glossier work like "How to Marry a Millionaire," "Three Coins in the Fountain" and "Daddy Long Legs." This selection is from his stint directing for Warner Bros. in the 1940s, kicking off with the film noir "Nobody Lives Forever," with John Garfield as a racketeer home from World War II. It's followed by "Casablanca" reunion (sans Bogart and Bergman) "The Conspirators," Joan Crawford romance "Humoresque," and "The Mask of Dimitrios," Negulesco's...
- 4/30/2012
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
With production set to start on Daniel Craig's next James Bond outing soon, David wonders if it's time for 007 to hang up his tuxedo for good...
“When you can’t tell your friends from your enemies, it’s time to go”
- M to Bond, Quantum of Solace
Last year, it seemed bland financial difficulties would spell the end for the man many had tried to shoot, stab, drown, torture and generally just beat up. Thankfully, even boring old bankruptcy has failed, as James Bond will be back in 2012, fifty years since the first film, and sixty since the first book.
But after nearly dying out with a whimper, shouldn’t the producers end the Bond series on their own terms?
We are now in the third serious gap we’ve had between Bond films in less than twenty five years. Between 1989 and 1995, there was no new movie, as...
“When you can’t tell your friends from your enemies, it’s time to go”
- M to Bond, Quantum of Solace
Last year, it seemed bland financial difficulties would spell the end for the man many had tried to shoot, stab, drown, torture and generally just beat up. Thankfully, even boring old bankruptcy has failed, as James Bond will be back in 2012, fifty years since the first film, and sixty since the first book.
But after nearly dying out with a whimper, shouldn’t the producers end the Bond series on their own terms?
We are now in the third serious gap we’ve had between Bond films in less than twenty five years. Between 1989 and 1995, there was no new movie, as...
- 10/5/2011
- Den of Geek
Richard Erdman buffed up his bald pate before his cheering Castro audience, confirming that he--more than anyone--had a sense of humor about the passage of time. After relishing in his "second banana" performance as blowzy alcoholic Delong in Cry Danger (1951), Muller expressed to Erdman that he felt they should have a drink--and promised that would come later--but settled into his on-stage conversation first.
Muller commented that he had seen Erdman "pop up" in "tiny little bit parts" in a lot of the noir films from the 1940s, including a bellhop in Nobody Lives Forever (1946). So, despite Erdman's presence throughout these films in the '40s, he was really really young in those roles. "Then, all of a sudden, here's Cry Danger--the kid grows up!" Muller found Erdman's casting as Delong interesting because--as most people know--noir is all about this odd post-wwii malaise and the shift in American manhood, which...
Muller commented that he had seen Erdman "pop up" in "tiny little bit parts" in a lot of the noir films from the 1940s, including a bellhop in Nobody Lives Forever (1946). So, despite Erdman's presence throughout these films in the '40s, he was really really young in those roles. "Then, all of a sudden, here's Cry Danger--the kid grows up!" Muller found Erdman's casting as Delong interesting because--as most people know--noir is all about this odd post-wwii malaise and the shift in American manhood, which...
- 1/31/2010
- Screen Anarchy
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