The Asphalt Jungle [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

"The Asphalt Jungle is a brilliantly conceived and executed anatomy of a crime -- or, as director John Huston and scripter Ben Maddow put it, ""a left-handed form of human endeavor."" Recently paroled master criminal Erwin ""Doc"" Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe), with funding from crooked attorney Emmerich (Louis Calhern), gathers several crooks together in Cincinnati for a Big Caper. Among those involved are Dix (Sterling Hayden), an impoverished hood who sees the upcoming jewel heist as a mea...