Event Details
In person: author and filmmaker Mark A. Fortin; actor Jack Huston; author, filmmaker, and actor Joshua John Miller; and journalist Nancy Jo Sales
A seedy group of criminals come together to execute a jewel heist before the corrupted characters inevitably turn on one another. Writer-director John Huston’s revered crime picture injects a jolt of modernity into the classic caper film with its punchy dialogue and the visual language of 1940s Italian neorealism. Marilyn Monroe co-stars as Angela Phinlay, the young girlfriend of down-on-his-luck lawyer and fixer Alonzo Emmerich (Louis Calhern), in what would be her first big break. The Asphalt Jungle was nominated for four Oscars, including one for Huston’s directing.
In a separately ticketed event before the screening, author Joshua John Miller signs copies of his new book, The Marilyn Monroe Century, at the Academy Museum Store.
Academy Museum film programming generously funded by the Richard Roth Foundation.
1950 | 112 min | USA | Black-and-White | English | Not Rated | 35mm
DIRECTED BY: John Huston
WRITTEN BY: Ben Maddow, John Huston
WITH: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen, Marilyn Monroe
New print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.