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Which novel inspired John Huston’s film The Asphalt Jungle?
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John Huston
John Huston (left) on the set of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
John Huston’s 1950 film The Asphalt Jungle was adapted from the hard-boiled crime novel of the same name by W.R. Burnett.12