Movie director John Huston talked to actress Jean Hagen during the filming of the final scene of The Asphalt Jungle in 1949. The film also starred Sterling Hayden, and parts of it were filmed on the Ben Eubank farm on Briar Hill Road in Lexington. Published in the Lexington Leader Oct. 14, 1949. The Asphalt Jungle was a 1950 film noir based on the 1949 novel of the same name by W. R. Burnett.