Kansas City Confidential

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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 masked gang responsible to clear his name.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf crime thriller film
film
alsoKnownAs The Secret Four
basedOn story by Harold Greene
story by Harry Essex
certificate Public domain in the United States
cinematographyBy George E. Diskant NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States
director Phil Karlson
distributor United Artists
editedBy Buddy Small
filmFormat black-and-white
filmingLocation Los Angeles
Mexico
genre crime film
film noir
thriller film
hasCharacter Boyd Kane
Helen Foster
Joe Rolfe
Pete Harris
Tim Foster
Tony Romano
hasTheme framing and wrongful accusation
identity and deception
revenge
musicBy Paul Sawtell
notableFor complex heist plot with masked robbers
influential example of 1950s American film noir
originalLanguage English
plotSummary An ex-con framed for an armored car robbery hunts down the masked gang responsible to clear his name.
producer Edward Small
productionCompany Edward Small Productions
releaseDate 1952-11-11
releaseYear 1952
runtimeMinutes 99
screenwriter George Bruce
Harry Essex
settingLocation Kansas City
Mexico
starring Coleen Gray
Jack Elam
John Payne
Lee Van Cleef
Neville Brand
Preston Foster

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John Payne notableWork Kansas City Confidential
Coleen Gray notableWork Kansas City Confidential
Neville Brand notableWork Kansas City Confidential
Harry Essex notableWork Kansas City Confidential
Harry Essex wroteScreenplayFor Kansas City Confidential
Kansas City Confidential title Kansas City Confidential