Kansas City Confidential
The Crime That Shocked The Nation!
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: April 18, 2012
- Originally Released: 1952
- Label: American Pop Classic
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Preston Foster, Jack Elam, Coleen Gray & John Payne | |
Performer: | Neville Brand, Carleton Young, Lee Van Cleef & Dona Drake | |
Directed by | Phil Karlson | |
Screenwriting by | George Bruce & Harry Essex | |
Cinematography by | George Diskant | |
Produced by | Edward Small |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A down and dirty picture with all the requisite blood, sweat and double-crosses. ... The biggest thrill is watching Jack Elam as the most nervous of the hoods.
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Creative Loafing
An amazing little film.
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Combustible Celluloid
Phil Karlson's rote heist-revenge flick aims to be stone cold, but can't seem to get any frost to grow around its warm, mushy heart.
Slant Magazine
Terse and tough, Kansas City Confidential is one of the great lean, mean B crime thrillers...
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Parallax View
Great heist tale, with good visual style.
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Classic Film and Television
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Falls into that rarefied early-'50s cycle of noir, which benefited from B directors who had learned how to quickly dispense with the genre conventions and deliver brutal action and lurid innuendos.
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Slant Magazine
Terse and tough, Kansas City Confidential is one of the great lean, mean B crime thrillers, with a bang-up opening, a deadly payoff and a shifting set of identities and alliances that keep pulling the rug from under our hero.
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Description by OLDIES.com:
An ex GI is framed for an armed robbery, put into jail and tortured. When they cannot prove it was him, he goes on a quest to find the culprits and the reasons he enters into the murky underworld of killers and corrupt policemen. An absolute gem from film noir's golden era. Joe Rolfe (John Payne) is an ex-con on the road to rehabilitation when he's framed for a million dollar robbery staged by Tim Foster (Preston S. Foster), a vengeful former cop. By the time he's finally released for lack of evidence, it's already too late his face has been plastered on the front page of the newspaper, he's been fired from his job, and he's still healing his wounds from the beating he took down at the police station. Embittered and determined, he sets out to find the real criminals to render justice himself. A trail of clues leads him south to Mexico, and straight into the path of an inconvenient beauty (Coleen Gray) with ties to the ringleader, and some of ugliest bad guys you'd never want to meet (Lee Van Cleef, Neville Brand, Jack Elam). Director Phil Karlsen is responsible for some of the most raw and thrilling crime dramas of the period, including 99 River Street, Hell's Island and Scandal Sheet. But he really out-does himself with Kansas City Confidential, despite the minimal budget he had to work with. Film noir is often (and half-jokingly) described as "shadows and fog." But Karlsen's work exhibited many of the other key characteristics that would go on to define true noir: Tough characters, blunt dialogue, violent realism, and down-on-their-luck anti-heroes at the center of the story. Years later, Karlsen would re-visit some these techniques with "Walking Tall", probably his best-known (and certainly most commercially-successful) film. But it's these tense, stylish 50s crime films, and Kansas City Confidential in particular, that continue to exude the most influence on contemporary directors enamored of the noir style of film-making. It also serves to establish Karlsen as one of the masters of the genre, and lends this film its historical significance. Indeed, it is this very plot that provided the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's breakthrough, Reservoir Dogs.
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