Criterion announced John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle will be making its Blu-Ray premiere in December, as well as receiving an upgraded DVD.
The classic noir crime-drama originally dropped on DVD in 2004 from Warner is receiving its introduction into the Criterion Collection.
Bonus features are below.
The Asphalt Jungle arrives on December 13th.
In a smog-choked city somewhere in the American Midwest, an aging criminal mastermind, newly released from prison, hatches a plan for a million-dollar jewel heist and draws a wealthy lawyer and a cherry-picked trio of outlaws into his carefully devised but inevitably doomed scheme.
Anchored by an abundance of nuanced performances from a gifted ensemble-including a tight-jawed Sterling Hayden and a sultry Marilyn Monroe in her breakout role-this gritty crime classic by John Huston climaxes in a meticulously detailed anatomy of a robbery that has reverberated through the genre ever since.
An uncommonly naturalistic view of a seamy underworld, The Asphalt Jungle painstakingly depicts the calm professionalism and toughness of its gangster heroes while evincing a remarkable depth of compassion for their all-too-human fragility, and it showcases a master filmmaker at the height of his powers.
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