The asphalt jungle (1949)

A jewel robbery needs a planner, muscle, technical skills and a way to turn the haul into money. Burnett makes the chain of dependencies unusually revealing: the apparently respectable lawyer financing the operation is as important a risk as anyone breaking into the building. Dix, hired for muscle, wants the money to recover a lost country life. Read for a job whose practical arrangements expose differences in status and desire, then carry those differences into a bleak aftermath.