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The Asphalt Jungle

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The Asphalt Jungle is a 1950 film about a major heist that goes off as planned, until bad luck and double crosses cause everything to unravel. Directed by John Huston and written by Ben Maddow and John Huston , based on the novel by W.R. Burnett . The...


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The Asphalt Jungle is a 1950 film noir directed by John Huston. Considered one of the classics of film noir and one of the first of the caper films, the film is based on the novel of the same name by W.R. Burnett and stars an ensemble cast including...


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Top Producer
The asphalt jungle.
01/08/2005: 454 words, approx. 2 pages
In the frontier areas of Brazil, civilization accelerates farmland prices as much as a dose of $10 soybeans. For example, virgin land near Boa Vista, Roraima-Brazil's most remote state-appreciated a whopping 104% in 2004 thanks to paved roads, new high-yielding soybean varieties and improved...
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Asphalt Jungle.(Interview)
10/01/2005: 655 words, approx. 2 pages
ASPHALT JUNGLE KICK OUT ROCKIN', clockin' rhythms that never stop! Big Beats explode from turntables, guitars, and samplers. Yesterday's funk fantasies combine with tomorrow's as-yet-unheard styles. Fuck yeah! Propelled by the devastating duo of Brian Tarquin and Chris Ingram, the Jungle's sonics explode, like...
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Car and Driver
Preview: 2007 Jeep Wrangler/Wrangler Unlimited
10/1/2006: 920 words, approx. 3 pages
The Jeep Wrangler would be our nominee for the most capable off-road vehicle sold in America. But for every owner who takes his Wrangler to the Rubicon there are 10 owners who use theirs in the urban jungles of Hollywood and Manhattan. How do you...
 


Criticism and Essays
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Critical Essay by Eugene Archer
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In the first part of this monograph [see excerpt above] we considered the early Huston. In later years his work has become more introspective. He has increasingly focused his attention on a handful of characters in conflict with their environment … small people in a big world…. In [the opening scene of The Asphalt Jungle] the film has captured the impression of the hunted desperation which pervades the underworld mentality, and conveyed a sympathy and comprehension toward certain elementary fa...
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Critical Essay by Gavin Lambert
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[In The Asphalt Jungle, as] in nearly all his previous films, Huston has selected a group of people whose conflicting motives and ambitions set the course of the story, and provide a dual tension, since their activities are usually illegal and the relations between them constantly changing. In The Asphalt Jungle, as in The Maltese Falcon and Treasure of the Sierra Madre, the people are brought together by common greed. But whether the motives are noble … or debased, Huston's attitude remains o...


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