John Huston’s “The Asphalt Jungle” is not as tightly wound of a thriller as say, “Dial M for Murder” or countless other Hitchcock classics, but it revels in its characters and its story to make a gripping noir.
It follows a group of burglars attempting the perfect robbery, one that will score a payoff of $1 million. But everything slowly goes wrong, as it must in a noir. No character trusts one another and no one can be trusted, so everything is destined to fall apart. The interesting part is in discovering how. Continue reading “Rapid Response: The Asphalt Jungle”