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...biggest department store, in a holiday ad this week. "The air is so fresh, the grass is so green, the animals are so audible. But . . . Does the country love us?" Pausing to "survey the blandishments that have lured many a New Yorker away from the safe familiarity of asphalt pavements and carbon monoxide," Macy's offered its own glossary of country terms and phrases for New Yorkers. Excerpts...
...Asphalt Jungle. Director John Huston examines a band of criminals as human beings while documenting a $1,000,000 burglary; with Sterling Hayden and Louis Calhern (TIME, June...
...Asphalt Jungle. Director John Huston explores a band of criminals as human beings while documenting a $1,000,000 jewel burglary (TIME, June...
...Asphalt Jungle. Director John Huston explores a band of criminals as human beings while closely documenting a $1,000,000 burglary; with Sterling Hayden and Louis Calhern (TIME, June...
Even with its shortcomings, the picture succeeds to a remarkable extent in understanding its criminals, and creating a kind of perverse sympathy for them without condoning their crimes. To have accomplished that within a story which is also a taut and exciting thriller, lifts The Asphalt Jungle high above the run of melodramas that do not score half so well on targets much easier...