The Asphalt Jungle is an example, for ten points, of what cynical style of filmmaking nearly always in black-and-white.
Josef von Sternberg's film Shanghai Express is an early example of this style, borrowing the baroque techniques of German Expressionism. Gloria Grahame and Robert Mitchum appeared principally in films in this style, including In a Lonely Place and Night of the Hunter. Dix Handley and "Doc" Riedenschneider team up in one example, and in another Orson Welles plays a crooked Texan cop. The Asphalt Jungle is an example, for ten points, of what cynical style of filmmaking nearly always in black-and-white.
Josef von Sternberg's film Shanghai Express is an early example of this style, borrowing the baroque techniques of German Expressionism.
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