The Asphalt Jungle

In the film noir The Asphalt Jungle from 1950 you are introduced to Doc a legendary crime brain just out of prison. He has a plan for a million dollar burglary. Doc recruits a team of drivers, financial backers, safecrackers and a strong-arm by the name of Dix Handley. The plan goes like clockwork, and then slowly accidents start to occur to derail the robbery. Dix knows a women by the name if Doll Conovan who gets involved in the mess that Dix and Doc have gotten into. With the police on their tail they split up, with Doc getting caught and Dix being able to get home to his farm in Kentucky. This was an interesting film noir, but it was not the best the plot took a while to develop it could have been better but it set the tone for a classic film noir in the class.

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