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The Asphalt Jungle Quotes

The Asphalt Jungle is a TV show that was first aired in 1970 . The Asphalt Jungle stopped airing in 1970.

It features Arthur Hornblow Jr. as producer, Miklós Rózsa in charge of musical score, and Harold Rosson as head of cinematography.

The Asphalt Jungle is recorded in English and originally aired in United States. Each episode of The Asphalt Jungle is 112 minutes long. The Asphalt Jungle is distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The cast includes: Sam Jaffe as Doc Riedenschneider, John McIntire as Police Commissioner Hardy, Sterling Hayden as Dix Handley, Marc Lawrence as Cobby, Marilyn Monroe as Angela Phinlay, Dorothy Tree as May Emmerich, Louis Calhern as Alonzo D. Emmerich, John Maxwell as Dr. Swanson, Brad Dexter as Bob Brannom, and James Whitmore as Gus Minissi.

The Asphalt Jungle Quotes

Marilyn Monroe as Angela Phinlay

  • (Marilyn Monroe) "Haven't you bothered me enough, you big banana-head?"
  • (Marilyn Monroe) "What's the big idea standing there staring at me, Uncle Lon?"
  • (Louis Calhern) "Don't call me "Uncle Lon.""
  • (Marilyn Monroe) "I thought you liked it."
  • (Louis Calhern) "Maybe I did -- I don't any more."
  • (Marilyn Monroe) "I had the market send over some salt mackerel for you. I know how you love it for breakfast."
  • (Louis Calhern) "Some sweet kid."

Louis Calhern as Alonzo D. Emmerich

  • (Louis Calhern) "Shut up."
  • (Brad Dexter) "How's that? No one tells me to shut up."

Marc Lawrence as Cobby

  • (Marc Lawrence) "Yeah, hello, hello. Yeah, this is Cobby. What?"
  • (Marc Lawrence) "It's Gus. Dragnet's out and they're combing the district."
  • (Marc Lawrence) "He wants to talk to you. You, Dix."
  • (Sterling Hayden) "Gus, Dix."
  • (James Whitmore) "Yeah, now, listen careful, pal. The cops are knocking over all the joints along the boulevard. There's mobs of them, meat wagons and all. Now, look, I already called the guy, Eddie Donato. Donato's got a grocery down by the river. 116 Front Street, you got that?"
  • (Sterling Hayden) "Yeah."
  • (James Whitmore) "Okay."
  • (Sterling Hayden) "Thanks, Gus. Say, how's Louie?"
  • (James Whitmore) "Louie's not so good. He got a slug in his belly, all right. Doc's doing all he can. Uh, here they are now, the happiness boys."
  • (James Whitmore) "Hello. How are you, yeah?"
  • (James Whitmore) "Looks like I'm in --"
  • (James Whitmore) "-- for a working over. Look, go down to Eddie's by way of the --"
  • (James Whitmore) "-- old car barn."
  • (James Whitmore) "Yeah, it's deserted at night. Once you get beyond that --"
  • (James Whitmore) "-- you're okay. The cops never bother Eddie's neighborhood. So long, Dix. Blow now --"
  • (James Whitmore) "-- eh?"
  • (James Whitmore) "All right, all right, all right."
  • (Marc Lawrence) "Here's to the drink habit. It's the only one I got that don't get me into trouble."

Dorothy Tree as May Emmerich

  • (Dorothy Tree) "Oh Lon, when I think of all those awful people you come in contact with; downright criminals; I get scared."
  • (Louis Calhern) "Oh, there's nothing so different about them. After all, crime is only -- a left-handed form of human endeavor."

John McIntire as Police Commissioner Hardy

  • (John McIntire) "People are being cheated, robbed, murdered, raped. And that goes on 24 hours a day, every day in the year. And that's not exceptional, that's usual. It's the same in every city in the modern world. But suppose we had no police force, good or bad. Suppose we had -- just silence. Nobody to listen, nobody to answer. The battle's finished. The jungle wins. The predatory beasts take over."
  • (John McIntire) "I am here to arrest you Emmerich."
  • (Louis Calhern) "May I ask what for?"
  • (John McIntire) "Complicty -- in robbery and in murder"
  • (Louis Calhern) "If I were you Hardy, I'd think up a few more charges. You might be able to make one of them stand up if you get an imbecile jury -- and the right judge."
  • (John McIntire) "In some ways, he's the most dangerous of them all. A hardened killer. A hooligan. A man without human feeling or human mercy."

Sam Jaffe as Doc Riedenschneider

  • (Sam Jaffe) "Let's not stop. Wait till we get out of town, when we can do everything at once. Have a little meal, beer, a cigar. Go in comfort."
  • (Frank Schurz, taxi driver) "I can see you're a man who likes his pleasures."
  • (Sam Jaffe) "Well, Franz, what else is there in life, I ask you?"
  • (Sam Jaffe) "One way or another, we all work for our vice."
  • (Sam Jaffe) "That copper, he recognized me."
  • (Marc Lawrence) "How'd you know he was a copper?"
  • (Sam Jaffe) "I can smell one a block off."
  • (Marc Lawrence) "Oh, don't worry about Ditrich. He's on my payroll. Practically a partner. Me and him, we're like that."
  • (Sam Jaffe) "Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit."

John Maxwell as Dr. Swanson

  • (John Maxwell) "Well he won't get very far, that's for sure. He hasn't got enough blood left in him to keep a chicken alive."

Sterling Hayden as Dix Handley

  • (Sterling Hayden) "Why don't you quit cryin' and get me some bourbon?"
  • (Sterling Hayden) "Don't bone me."

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