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The asphalt jungle
Uniform Title
Asphalt jungle (Motion picture)
Title
The asphalt jungle / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; a John Huston production ; produced by Loew's Incorporated ; screen play by Ben Maddow and John Huston ; produced by Arthur Hornblow, Jr. ; directed by John Huston.
ISBN
9781681432397
1681432390
Edition
Blu-ray special edition.
Publication
[New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert (color illustrations ; 19 cm)
Medium
4 3/4 in.
Notes
Title from title frame.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1950.
Based on the novel by W.R. Burnett.
1.37:1 aspect ratio.
Special features: audio commentary from 2004 by film historian Drew Casper, featuring recordings of actor James Whitmore; new interviews with film noir historian Eddie Muller and cinematographer John Bailey; archival footage of writer-director John Huston discussing the film; Pharos of chaos, a 1983 documenary about actor Sterlin Haydon; episode of the television program City lights from 1979 featuring John Huston; audio excerpts of archival interviews with Huston; excerpts from footage of the 1983 AFI lifetime achievement award ceremony honoring Huston, featuring actor Sam Jaffe and the filmmaker; trailer; insert essay by critic Geoffrey O'Brien.
Director of photography, Harold Rosson ; art directors, Cedric Gibbons and Randall Duell ; film editor, George Boemler ; music by Miklos Rozsa.
In English with optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).
Summary
In a smog-choked city somewhere in the American Midwest, an aging criminal mastermind, newly released from prison, hatches a plan for a million-dollar jewel heist and draws a wealthy lawyer and a cherry-picked trio of outlaws into his carefully devised but inevitably doomed scheme"--Container.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 08, 2019
Series
The Criterion collection ; 847
Credits
Director of photography, Harold Rosson ; art directors, Cedric Gibbons and Randall Duell ; film editor, George Boemler ; music by Miklos Rozsa.
Cast
Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe, John McIntire, Marc Lawrence, Barry Kelley, Marilyn Monroe.
System details note
Blu-ray, region A ; full frame (1.37:1 screen ratio); uncompressed monaural.
Audience
Not rated.
Videorecording number
CC2711BD Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Subjects
Genre/Form
Film adaptations.
Gangster films.
Film noir.
Film noir.
Crime films.
Gangster films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Crime films.
Drama.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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