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Synopsis: When the intelligent criminal Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider is released from prison, he seeks a fifty thousand-dollar investment from the bookmaker Cobby to recruit a small gang of specialists for a million-dollar heist of jewels from a jewelry. Doc is introduced to the lawyer Alonzo D. Emmerich that offers to finance the whole operation and buy the gems immediately after the burglary. Doc hires the safecracker Louis Ciavelli, the driver Gus Minissi and the gunman Dix Handley to the heist. His plan works perfectly but bad luck and betrayals compromise the steps after the heist and the gangsters need to flee from the police.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Director(s): John Huston

Actors: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, James Whitmore

Production: WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES

Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 10 nominations.


IMDB:: 7.9
Rotten Tomatoes:: 97%

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Year:: 1950
: 112 min
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The people he's worked for. Let them
show justice or compassion as they see fit.
What would be your
verdict, commissioner?
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure at all.
Let me put it this way.
It's not anything strange that there
are corrupt officers in police departments.
The dirt they're trying to clean up
is bound to rub off on some, but not all.
Maybe one out of 100.
The other 99 are honest men
trying to do an honest job.
Robbery at 193 Scully Avenue.
- Listen.
All units, robbery at 193...
...two male Caucasians,
armed with blue steel...
I know you're police reporters
and hear this all day...
...but listen with your conscience,
not just your ears.
wearing a brown felt hat...
...a shooting at 25 James Boulevard.
Woman screaming.
Car 12, shooting at
All units, strong-arm slugging,
We send police assistance
to each of those calls...
...because they're not just codes
on a radio, they're cries for help.
People are being cheated,
robbed, murdered, raped.
And that goes on 24 hours a day,
every day in the year.
And that's not exceptional, that's usual.
It's the same in every city
of the modern world.
But suppose we had no police force,
good or bad.
Suppose we had...
...just silence.
Nobody to listen. Nobody to answer.
The battle's finished.
The jungle wins.
The predatory beasts take over.
Think about it.
Well, gentlemen...
...three men are in jail, three men dead, one
by his own hand. One man's a fugitive...
...and we have reason to believe
seriously wounded.
That's six out of seven. Not bad.
And we'll get the last one too.
In some ways,
he's the most dangerous of them all.
A hardened killer. A hooligan.
A man without human feeling
or human mercy.
I tell you...
...the black one's the best
we ever had at Hickorywood.
The bay's all right, but...
...the black's a real good colt.
Prettiest way of...
Going of... Anything...
...Pa ever bred.
Easiest thing...
...but he's always way out front...
...of the other yearlings.
He's a stake horse...
...or I never saw one.
I sure hope...
...Pa don't sell him.
If Pa just hangs on to that black colt...
...everything's gonna be all right.
- Oh, Dix. God.
I said it.
I'll say it again.
If Pa just hangs on to that black colt...
...everything's gonna be okay.
What's this...?
Oh, Dix.
Dix. Dix.
Oh, God. Oh, my God, Dix.
Dix.

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Ben Maddow

Benjamin D. Maddow (August 7, 1909 in Passaic, New Jersey – October 9, 1992 in Los Angeles, California) was a prolific screenwriter and documentarian from the 1930s through the 1970s. Educated at Columbia University, Maddow began his career working within the American documentary movement in the 1930s. In 1936 he co-founded the short-lived left-wing newsreel The World Today. Under the pseudonym of David Wolff, Maddow co-wrote the screenplay to the Paul Strand–Leo Hurwitz documentary landmark, Native Land (1942). He earned his first feature screenplay credit with Framed (1947). Other screenplays include Clarence Brown's Intruder in the Dust (1949, an adaptation of the William Faulkner novel), John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950, for which he received an Academy Award nomination), Johnny Guitar (1954, credited to Philip Yordan, God's Little Acre (1958, an adaptation of the Erskine Caldwell novel officially credited to Philip Yordan as a HUAC-era "front" for Maddow), and, again with Huston, an Edgar Award for Best Mystery Screenplay) and The Unforgiven (1960). As a documentarian he directed and wrote such films as Storm of Strangers, The Stairs, and The Savage Eye (1959), which won the BAFTA Flaherty Documentary Award. Maddow made his solo feature directorial debut with the striking, offbeat feature An Affair of the Skin (1963), a well-acted story of several loves and friendships gone sour and marked by the rich characterisations which had distinguished his best screenplays. In 1961, Maddow and Huston co-wrote the episode "The Professor" of the 1961 television series The Asphalt Jungle. In 1968 he wrote a screenplay based on Edmund Naughton's novel McCabe; while a film adaptation of the novel was ultimately produced as McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), Maddow wasn't credited on the film. His final screenplay was for the horror melodrama The Mephisto Waltz (1970). more…

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