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Synopsis: When the intelligent criminal Erwin "Doc" Riedenschneider 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 from a jewelry. Doc is introduced to the lawyer Alonzo D. Emmerich that 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 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.
Director(s): John Huston
Production: WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES
  Nominated for 4 Oscars. Another 5 wins & 10 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
97%
NOT RATED
Year:
1950
112 min
1,473 Views


I don't anymore.

I had the market send over

some salt mackerel for you.

I know how you love it for breakfast.

Some sweet kid.

It's late.

Why don't you go to bed.

Some sweet kid.

Hello, Bob Brannom?

This is Emmerich.

No, no. I didn't call you to get the right time.

Listen, I've got a job for you.

No, no. Nothing like that.

I've got over $ 100,000

standing out on my books.

Come to my office tomorrow, I'll give you

a list of the people that owe me.

No, no, no.

Use the method called for

in each particular case...

...and don't tell me anything about it.

All I want is results.

Easy, boy.

Easy, boy. Easy.

Hello. Who?

Oh, sure, Gus.

He's still asleep.

What?

Yeah. Yeah, I'll tell him.

Honey. Honey, that was Gus.

He says you can come over.

He's got something for you.

Okay.

Coffee, honey? I made fresh.

Yeah, yeah.

Hey, you sure were dreaming.

How do you know?

You were talking in your sleep.

What was I saying?

It was all jumbled up,

but I heard one word real plain.

You called it out several times.

'Corn cracker.'

What's that mean?

Corn cracker.

Corn Cracker was a colt.

Yeah, it would be.

Yeah. He was a tall, black colt.

Yeah, I remember what I was dreaming.

I was up on that colt's back.

My father and my grandfather were there,

watching the fun.

That colt was buckjumping and pitching...

...and tried to scrape me off against

the fence, but I stayed with him.

Then I heard my granddaddy say, 'He's

a real Handley, that boy. A real Handley.'

And I felt proud as you please.

Did that really happen, Dix,

when you were a kid?

No. The black colt pitched me

into a fence on the first buck...

...and my old man come over,

prodded me with his boot, said:

'Maybe that'll teach you not to brag

about how good you are on a horse.'

It's nice to hear you laugh.

You know something?

One of my ancestors imported the first

Irish thoroughbred into our county.

Is that a fact?

- Sure.

Why, our farm was in the family

for generations.

One hundred sixty acres,

Fine barn and seven brood mares.

It sounds wonderful, Dix.

- It was.

And then everything happened at once.

My old man died,

and we lost our corn crop.

That black colt I was telling you about,

he broke his leg and had to be shot.

That was a rotten year.

I'll never forget the day we left.

Me and my brother swore we'd buy

Hickorywood Farm back someday.

Growing up in a place and then

having to leave must be awful.

I never had a proper home.

Twelve grand would have swung it,

and I almost made it once.

I had more than $5000 in my pocket...

...and Pampoon was running

in the Suburban.

I figured he couldn't lose.

I put it all on his nose.

He lost by a nose.

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Ben Maddow

Benjamin D. Maddow (August 7, 1909 in Passaic, New Jersey – October 9, 1992 in Los Angeles, California) was a prolific screenwriter and documentarian from the 1930s through the 1970s. Educated at Columbia University, Maddow began his career working within the American documentary movement in the 1930s. In 1936 he co-founded the short-lived left-wing newsreel The World Today. Under the pseudonym of David Wolff, Maddow co-wrote the screenplay to the Paul Strand–Leo Hurwitz documentary landmark, Native Land (1942). He earned his first feature screenplay credit with Framed (1947). Other screenplays include Clarence Brown's Intruder in the Dust (1949, an adaptation of the William Faulkner novel), John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950, for which he received an Academy Award nomination), Johnny Guitar (1954, credited to Philip Yordan, God's Little Acre (1958, an adaptation of the Erskine Caldwell novel officially credited to Philip Yordan as a HUAC-era "front" for Maddow), and, again with Huston, an Edgar Award for Best Mystery Screenplay) and The Unforgiven (1960). As a documentarian he directed and wrote such films as Storm of Strangers, The Stairs, and The Savage Eye (1959), which won the BAFTA Flaherty Documentary Award. Maddow made his solo feature directorial debut with the striking, offbeat feature An Affair of the Skin (1963), a well-acted story of several loves and friendships gone sour and marked by the rich characterisations which had distinguished his best screenplays. In 1961, Maddow and Huston co-wrote the episode "The Professor" of the 1961 television series The Asphalt Jungle. In 1968 he wrote a screenplay based on Edmund Naughton's novel McCabe; while a film adaptation of the novel was ultimately produced as McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), Maddow wasn't credited on the film. His final screenplay was for the horror melodrama The Mephisto Waltz (1970). more…

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