The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Sterling Hayden, Sam Jaffe, brief Marilyn Monroe. The original ensemble heist film.
Ben MaddowSterling Hayden, Sam Jaffe, brief Marilyn Monroe. The original ensemble heist film.
Gladys Hill1975 John Huston adventure with Sean Connery and Michael Caine as British soldiers crowning themselves kings in Kafiristan. The Man Who Would Be King is John Huston's 1975 American adventure film adapting Rudyard Kipling's 1888 novella.
John HustonHuston's 1948 gold-greed Western. Bogart deteriorating, Walter Huston dancing, Tim Holt holding the moral center.
John HustonHuston's 1941 directorial debut. The film that established American film noir as a coherent style.
Abem FinkelSergeant York is a propaganda film that happens to also be a great film. The film came out in July 1941, five months before Pearl Harbor, and it pushed America toward war.
John HustonThe studio, MGM, cut the film roughly in half after disastrous preview screenings. Lillian Ross's book Picture, a long-form New Yorker series about the making of the film, has become more famous than the film itself.
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