What 1950 film noir was based on W. R. Burnett's novel The Asphalt Jungle?

The 1950 film noir based on W. R. Burnett’s novel The Asphalt Jungle is The Asphalt Jungle.

Directed by John Huston, the film adapts Burnett’s 1949 crime novel about a carefully planned jewel robbery in a Midwestern city. Rather than presenting criminals as simple villains, it follows their skills, rivalries, loyalties, and inevitable collapse with unusual detail for its era.

Huston and screenwriter Ben Maddow reshaped the source material by emphasizing the robbers’ story and reducing its police-procedural elements. Burnett was consulted during the preparation of the shooting script and approved the completed adaptation.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released the film on May 12, 1950. The cast included Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Sam Jaffe, James Whitmore, and Marilyn Monroe in one of her earliest significant film roles. The other options are separate crime films, not adaptations of Burnett’s novel.