Join the Film Noir Movie Club for a showing of The Asphalt Jungle (1950), starring Sterling Hayden and Louis Calhern, and featuring Marilyn Monroe in her breakout role.
'Doc' Riedenschneider, a legendary criminal just out of prison, has a brilliant plan for a million-dollar burglary. To pull it off, he recruits safecracker Louis, driver Gus, financial backer Emmerich, and strong-arm man Dix Handley. At first the plan goes like clockwork, but then double crosses, bad luck, and solid police work cause everything to unravel.