Kansas City Confidential (1952 film)

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Kansas City Confidential is a 1952 American film noir crime thriller about an ex-con framed for a brutal armored car robbery who hunts down the real culprits to clear his name.

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instanceOf crime thriller film
film
alsoKnownAs The Secret Four
basedOn original screenplay
castMember Coleen Gray
Donna Reed
Jack Elam
John Payne
Lee Van Cleef
Neville Brand
Preston Foster
certificate United States: Approved
cinematographyBy George E. Diskant NERFINISHED
colorProcess monochrome
countryOfOrigin United States
director Phil Karlson
distributedBy United Artists
editedBy Buddy Small
era classic Hollywood era
filmFormat black-and-white
genre crime film
film noir
thriller film
hasSetting Kansas City
Mexico
hasTheme framing and wrongful accusation
identity concealment
revenge
leadActor John Payne
leadActress Coleen Gray
mainCharacter Joe Rolfe
musicBy Paul Sawtell
notableFor complex heist plot with masked robbers whose identities are hidden from each other
influential example of 1950s American film noir
originalLanguage English
plotSummary An ex-con is framed for an armored car robbery and hunts down the real culprits to clear his name.
producer Edward Small
productionCompany Edward Small Productions
protagonistOccupation ex-convict
releaseDate 1952-11-11
releaseYear 1952
runtimeMinutes 99
screenwriter George Bruce
Harry Essex
setInPeriod 1950s
storyBy Harold Greene
Rowland Brown
title Kansas City Confidential

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Edward Small Productions notableWork Kansas City Confidential (1952 film)
Edward Small notableWork Kansas City Confidential (1952 film)