- (This page is about the movie. For the French band of the same name, see Asphalt Jungle(2)).
The Asphalt Jungle is a 1950 film noir directed by John Huston. The heist film is based on the 1949 novel of the same name by W. R. Burnett and stars an ensemble cast including Sterling Hayden, Jean Hagen, Sam Jaffe, Louis Calhern, James Whitmore, and, in a minor but key role, Marilyn Monroe, an unknown at the time who was pictured but not mentioned on the posters. The film tells the story of a group of men planning and executing a jewel robbery. It was nominated for four Academy Awards.
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In Margrave Of The Marshes, before Peel and Sheila moved to Peel Acres, she mentioned a ritual with Peel on most weekends, where with John Walters and his wife Helen, they would take turns cooking dinner at each others' homes, related in some way to films shown in BBC2's Midnight Movie slot,, which they would watch together on Saturday nights:
- "When the film was The Asphalt Jungle, the menu consisted of rock cakes, berries and some kind of 'jungle juice' - a rather lethal punch, if I'm not mistaken. For The Three Musketeers, an assortment of vegetables and baked potatoes were skewered on to a fencing rapier. Where Angels Fear To Tread was accompanied by, among other things, angel cakes and Harp lager, while a film about drugs, the name of which escapes me, Walters and Helen cooked up a pot roast and then wheeled it in - at great speed." (Margrave Of The Marshes, Bantam Press, 2005, p. 302-303.)