Directed by Barry Pollack
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Archive Collection)
Thalmus Rasulala is released from San Quentin, but immediately begins plans for a jewel heist. He looks up old friends in San Francisco and assembles a team of crooks, gamblers and killers for the job. They get the loot, but one is shot and another tries to make off with the goods. The plot may be familiar, it's based on W.R. Burnett's novel The Asphalt Jungle, but the setting is changed to a gritty early 70s inner city. A slow pace actually works in its favor leaving plenty of room for off-the-wall characters. Pam Grier has one scene as a prostitute in only her fourth screen appearance. The very good soundtrack features songs by Solomon Burke.
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