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Kansas City Confidential
Kansas City Confidential
John Payne / DVD / NR / 1952
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Kansas City Confidential
,
Phil Karlson
's low (
low
) budget, B-grade film noir, opens on a Kansas City armored-car robbery perpetrated by cynical, corrupt ex-policeman
Timothy Foster
(
Preston S. Foster
).
Foster
devises an outrageous scheme: he will recruit three of the most vicious and unrelenting criminals he can find (screen heavies
Lee Van Cleef
,
Jack Elam
and
Neville Brand
) to undertake a robbery, blackmailing them into the heist with incriminating evidence from other "jobs." As an eccentric and clever conceit,
Foster
forces each of the perpetrators to wear masks, thus concealing their identities from one another and preventing the old pitfall of the men squealing and backstabbing. The heist comes off without a scratch, but a complication arises when the ignorant cops pick up an unrelated fellow,
Joe Rolfe
(
John Payne
) for his ownership of a van similar to the one used in the caper. In time,
Rolfe
is cleared, but he grows irate over the accusations and sets off to find
Foster
and co. and teach them a lesson. He finally happens upon one of the perpetrators in Mexico, beats him nearly to death, and assumes the victim's identity - and that's when things
really
get complicated. Though produced under the Hays Code censorship regulations,
Kansas City Confidential
constituted one of the most brutal and violent
crime
pictures made up through that time; as such, it retains historical significance. It also claims a strong cult following. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
Color
B&W
Director
Phil Karlson
Editor
Buddy Small
Format
DVD
Language
English/French/Espanol
Rating
NR
Run Time
99 min
Stars
John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston S. Foster, Lee Van Cleef, Neville Brand
Subtitles
English/Espanol
Year Released
1952
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