The Asphalt Jungle 1950. Sam Jaffe, Louis Calhern, Sterling Hayden, Marilyn Monroe, Jean Hagen
When the intelligent criminal Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe) is released from prison, he seeks a fifty thousand-dollar investment from the bookmaker Cobby to recruit a small gang of specialists for a million-dollar heist of jewels. Doc is introduced to the lawyer Alonzo D. Emmerich (Louis Calhern) who offers to finance the whole operation and buy the gems immediately after the burglary. Doc hires the safecracker Louis Ciavelli, the driver Gus Minissi and the gunman Dix Handley (Sterling Hayden) to the heist. His plan works perfectly but bad luck and betrayals compromise the steps after the heist and the gangsters need to flee from the police.