Sterling Hayden (Dix) is a hooligan who is recruited into a small team to rob a jewellery safe masterminded by Sam Jaffe (Doc). We also have family man Anthony Caruso (Louis) along for the ride as the safe-cracker and alarm expert and get-away driver James Whitmore (Gus). Louis Calhern (Emmerich) is lined up as the buyer of the stolen merchandise. A plan is put into action after all introductions have been made by Marc Lawrence (Cobby), who is the "go-to" man when dealing with characters that play on the wrong side of the law. However, greed is never a good companion on these heists.
The plot sounds ok and the film is alright but it is overlong and the female roles are terrible. Jean Hagen (Doll), Dorothy Tree (May) and Marilyn Monroe (Angela) are typical soppy females who have been put into a macho film. This is disappointing. Our lead actor - Hayden - also has no likeable qualities. He is just a horrible, grumpy man. How are the audience supposed to relate? The asphalt jungle. More like the asshole jungle.
One thing is now very funny as with hindsight the film provides a premonition of the future in the UK police force. The film ends with a police commissioner explaining that there may be a few bad cops in the force and he turns on the radio for the gathered press conference and demonstrates that at least we are in a position where each reported incident in the city is attended to. He turns through the dial on the police radio as we listen to a continuous set of instructions to attend various crimes. The commissioner tells us to imagine if this didn't happen. Wow! Well, this is the route the UK have gone down. Nothing gets investigated these days and people have given up reporting certain crimes because nothing gets done. The police are more concerned with investigating whether or not someone's feelings have been hurt as a result of woke nonsense and spend their time virtue-signaling and taking the knee. Uuurgh!
The plot sounds ok and the film is alright but it is overlong and the female roles are terrible. Jean Hagen (Doll), Dorothy Tree (May) and Marilyn Monroe (Angela) are typical soppy females who have been put into a macho film. This is disappointing. Our lead actor - Hayden - also has no likeable qualities. He is just a horrible, grumpy man. How are the audience supposed to relate? The asphalt jungle. More like the asshole jungle.
One thing is now very funny as with hindsight the film provides a premonition of the future in the UK police force. The film ends with a police commissioner explaining that there may be a few bad cops in the force and he turns on the radio for the gathered press conference and demonstrates that at least we are in a position where each reported incident in the city is attended to. He turns through the dial on the police radio as we listen to a continuous set of instructions to attend various crimes. The commissioner tells us to imagine if this didn't happen. Wow! Well, this is the route the UK have gone down. Nothing gets investigated these days and people have given up reporting certain crimes because nothing gets done. The police are more concerned with investigating whether or not someone's feelings have been hurt as a result of woke nonsense and spend their time virtue-signaling and taking the knee. Uuurgh!