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The asphalt jungle [videorecording] / ... Read More

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Stan Getz Library DVD 7261-7262 Disc 1 37684001098082 Annex Copy hold / Volume hold Available -
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Record details

  • ISBN: 9781681432403
  • ISBN: 1681432404
  • ISBN: 0715515190718
  • Physical Description: 2 videodiscs (112 min.) : DVD video, sound, black ... Read More
  • Edition: Two-DVD special edition.
  • Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2016]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Title from title frame.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1950.
Based on the novel by W.R. Burnett.
Special features: audio commentary from 2004 by film historian Drew Casper, featuring recordings of ... Read More
Creation/Production Credits Note:
Director of photography, Harold Rosson ; art ... Read More
Participant or Performer Note:
Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James ... Read More
Summary, etc.:
In a smog-choked city somewhere in the American ... Read More
Target Audience Note:
Not rated.
System Details Note:
DVD; NTSC, region 1; full frame (1.37:1 screen ... Read More
Language Note:
In English with optional English SDH subtitles for ... Read More
Subject: Burnett, W. R. (William Riley), 1899-1982 > Film adaptations.
Jewelry theft > Drama.
Ex-convicts > Drama.
Jewel thieves > Drama.
Genre: Film noir.
Crime films.
Detective and mystery films.
Film adaptations.
Feature films.
Fiction films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
DVD; NTSC, region 1; full frame (1.37:1 screen ratio); Dolby Digital monaural.
In English with optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
Director of photography, Harold Rosson ; art directors, Cedric Gibbons and Randall Duell ; film editor, George Boemler ; music by Miklos Rozsa.
Title from title frame.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1950.
Based on the novel by W.R. Burnett.
Not rated.
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.
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; episode of the television program City lights from 1979 featuring John Huston; Pharos of chaos a 1983 documentary about actor Sterling Haydon; audio excerpts of archival interviews with Huston; trailer. Container insert includes essay "A left-handed form of human endeavor" by film critic Geoffrey O'Brien.

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