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John Huston's 1950

THE ASPHALT JUNGLE

Fri, Jan 13 | 6:30 PM | TICKETS

Sun, Jan 15 | 2:30 PM | TICKETS

Director John Huston was able to get dimensionally vivid performances from the actors who play a desperate band of robbers seeking instant spiritual redemption in the form of unearned material reward. Huston asks if the members of the gang that plans their "last big heist" were morally corrupt because of a lack of belief in anything but money, or if they are outcasts from a legal system that leaves them no alternative but to rely on illegal get-rich-quick schemes, criminals looking for a fast fix to fulfill their own, if warped, American dream.

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Join New York Times best-selling author, film scholar and historian, and resident film curator MARC ELIOT, for the ART OF FILM featuring the Greatest Films ever released, presented the way they were meant to be seen on the Giant Screen. Marc Eliot personally selects each film, focusing on directorial art and influence (auteur theory), and examines the masterworks of legendary film directors, providing a virtual pre-film introduction and a full post-film discussion for each film. See the ART OF FILM series every Friday evening and Sunday afternoon. Meet Marc Eliot in person at special ART OF FILM FESTIVAL events. Only at Peoria Riverfront Museum's Giant Screen Theater, featuring Illinois’ largest movie screen!

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