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The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Jewel thief gives nickels to teenagers to play jukebox music
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The 1950 film "The Asphalt Jungle" is about a group of men who plot to rob a large jewelry store. The robbers get the gems but then begin double-crossing each other leading the police to most of them. The last two gang members still at large flee in separate directions.
 
Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider takes a taxi cab out of the city and stops at a small cafe where three teenagers, two boys and a girl, are sitting..
 
Doc gives them a bunch of nickels so that they can play the coin-operated music jukebox.
 
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1. Doc greets the group
Doc buys some nickels from the cashier and gives them to the girl Jeannie.
 
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2. Jeannie thanks Doc
The nickels are spread out on the table.
 
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3. Coins
Jeannie begins playing music and then dancing.
Cast, Directors, Writers:
 
Sterling Hayden as Dix Handley
Louis Calhern as Alonzo D. Emmerich
James Whitmore as Gus Minissi
Sam Jaffe as "Doc" Erwin Riedenschneider
Jean Hagen as "Doll" Conovan
John McIntire as Police Commissioner Hardy
Barry Kelley as Lt. Ditrich
Marilyn Monroe as Angela Phinlay
Dorothy Tree as May Emmerich
Brad Dexter as Bob Brannom
 
Director: John Huston
Writers: Ben Maddow, John Huston
Based on the 1949 novel The Asphalt Jungle by W. R. Burnett
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