Kansas City Confidential

Kansas City Confidential

Infobox Film | name = Kansas City Confidential


caption = Kansas City Confidential movie poster
director = Phil Karlson
producer = Edward Small
writer = George Bruce
Harry Essex
Rowland Brown (story)
Harold Greene
starring = John Payne
Coleen Gray
Preston Foster
Neville Brand
Lee Van Cleef
music = Paul Sawtell
cinematography = George E. Diskant
editing =
distributor = United Artists
released = November 28 1952 (U.S. release)
runtime = 99 min
language = English
budget =
imdb_id = 0044789

"Kansas City Confidential" is a 1952 black-and-white crime film directed by Phil Karlson and starring John Payne. Karlson and Payne teamed up a year later for another black-and-white film, this time a noir, titled "99 River Street", followed by a 1955 color film, "Hell's Island".

In "Kansas City Confidential", perennial movie bad guys Lee Van Cleef, Neville Brand and Jack Elam play thugs and criminal associates. Although the title would suggest that the story takes place in Kansas City, most of the film actually takes place at a fictitious resort and port in Mexico. The tag line for the film was, "Exploding like a gun in your face!" "Kansas City Confidential" was director Karlson's second crime film; he also directed "Scandal Sheet", also released in 1952, which proved to be a modest commercial success.

Plot

Four robbers hold up an armored truck getting away with over a million dollars in cash. Joe Rolfe (John Payne), a down-on-his-luck flower delivery truck driver is accused of being involved and is roughly interrogated by local police. Released due to lack of evidence, Joe, following the clues to a Mexican resort, decides to look for the men who set him up. What he doesn’t know is that the heist involves a retired policeman who is also intent on revenge.

Main cast

*John Payne as Joe Rolfe/Peter Harris
*Coleen Gray as Helen Foster aka Punkin
*Preston Foster as Tim Foster
*Neville Brand as Boyd Kane
*Lee Van Cleef as Tony Romano
*Jack Elam as Pete Harris aka Johnson

External links

*imdb title|id=0044789|title=Kansas City Confidential (1952)
* [http://www.archive.org/details/kansascityconfidencial The complete film] available at Internet Archive
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1900116656857702893 "Kansas City Confidential"] at Google Video


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