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Quotation by Ben Maddow
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Alonzo D. Emmerich (Louis Calhern), The Asphalt Jungle (1950)Doc Erwin Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe), The Asphalt Jungle (1950)Louis Ciavelli (Anthony Caruso), The Asphalt Jungle (1950)Maria Ciavelli (Teresa Celli), The Asphalt Jungle (1950)Police Commissioner Hardy (John McIntire), The Asphalt Jungle (1950)Related Subjects
destiny (12) fortune (10) death (8) luck (7) love (6) life (4) gods (3) providence (3) time (3) planning (3)
Put in hours and hours of planning, figure everything down to the last detail, then what? Burglar alarms start going off all over the place for no sensible reason. A gun fires of its own accord and a man is shot. And a broken-down old house no good for anything but chasing kids has to trip over us. Blind accidents. What can you do against blind accidents?
Ben Maddow (1909–1992), U.S. screenwriter, and John Huston (1906–1987). Doc Erwin Riedenschneider (Sam Jaffe), The Asphalt Jungle, to Dix Handley after their jewel heist plans start to unravel (1950).
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