Kansas City Confidential (Kansas City 117)

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7.3	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Phil Karlson

Starring (View all)

John Payne
Joe Rolfe

Coleen Gray
Helen Foster

Preston Foster
Tim Foster

Neville Brand
Boyd Kane

Lee Van Cleef
Tony Romano

Jack Elam
Pete Harris

Dona Drake
Teresa

Mario Siletti
Tomaso

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Harry Essex
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Rowland Brown
(story)

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4 years ago at Apr 12 0:09

fernando

Plot, direction, even acting by John Payne, are tight and right. The mask idea the reunits Preston Foster, Neville Brand, Lee Van Cleef and jack Elam in a mexican hotel, waiting to the loot, great...

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Release date: 11 November 1952
UPC: 014381145021

Tags: Film Noir (4), Drama (2), Mystery (2), Crime (2), Noir (2), Mexico (2), 1950s (2), 1952 (2), Heist (1), Black & White (1), 50s (1), HQ (1), 50's (1), Avi (1), United Artists (1)

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"Phil Karlson’s Kansas City Confidential falls into that rarefied early-1950s cycle of noir, which benefited from B directors who’d learned how to quickly dispense with genre conventions and deliver brutal action and lurid innuendos. There was no time for the mannered wisecracks of guys like ex-singer/dancer Dick Powell, who always seemed like their minds were on the next manicure. The new generation had its own ex-singer/dancer leading man, but John Payne had a tougher mug and a terser deliv"