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The Asphalt Jungle (1950)

★ 7.5 · 542 ratings on TMDB

The City Under the City

The Asphalt Jungle poster★ 7.5

Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.

DirectorJohn Huston
CastAnthony Caruso, Barry Kelley, James Whitmore, Jean Hagen, John McIntire, Louis Calhern
GenresCrime, Drama
The emergence reading

The Asphalt Jungle keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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