1. Kansas City Confidential (1952) - KINO Rotterdam
Storyline. A mysterious fellow (Preston Foster) contacts a trio of criminals (Jack Elam, Neville Brand, Lee Van Cleef) to help with a bank heist. The four wear ...
2. Kansas City Confidential (1952) directed by Phil Karlson - Letterboxd
An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.
3. Kansas City Confidential - Rotten Tomatoes
A mysterious fellow (Preston Foster) contacts a trio of criminals (Jack Elam, Neville Brand, Lee Van Cleef) to help with a bank heist.
A mysterious fellow (Preston Foster) contacts a trio of criminals (Jack Elam, Neville Brand, Lee Van Cleef) to help with a bank heist. The four wear masks and remain strangers to each other, planning to reunite in Mexico to divvy up the loot. Joe Rolfe (John Payne), the man they framed to take the heat, gets his charges dropped, and the police offer him a reward if he can help recover the cash. He agrees, and when one of the thieves meets his end, Rolfe assumes his identity to catch the crooks.
4. Kansas City Confidential (1952) - Filmaffinity
Synopsis: Phil Karlson's low budget, B-grade film noir, opens on a Kansas City armored-car robbery perpetrated by cynical, corrupt ex-policeman Timothy ...
Genre: Film noir | Synopsis: Phil Karlson's low budget, B-grade film noir, opens on a Kansas City armored-car robbery perpetrated by cynical, corrupt ex-policeman Timothy Foster. He devises an outrageous scheme: he will recruit ...
5. Kansas City Confidential - Noir film festival
An ex-convict Joe makes his living as a professional driver. One day he becomes a suspect in a bank robbery after the real robbers use his car as bait.
NOIR FILM FESTIVAL EN
6. Kansas City Confidential | film by Karlson [1952] - Britannica
Other articles where Kansas City Confidential is discussed: Phil Karlson: Film noirs: Kansas City Confidential (1952) was another effective noir, ...
Other articles where Kansas City Confidential is discussed: Phil Karlson: Film noirs: Kansas City Confidential (1952) was another effective noir, with John Payne well cast as an ex-convict seeking retribution after nearly being framed for an armed robbery. The film was known particularly for its brutality, and it later developed a cult following. Payne also starred in…
7. Kansas City Confidential - AFI|Catalog
The working title of this film was Kansas City 117. A written foreword notes that the story deals with a supposedly "...'perfect crime,' the true solution ...
For over a week, retired Kansas City police captain Tim Foster watches the Southwest Bank and the flower shop next door to ascertain the timing of each business's delivery trucks. Satisfied that each truck leaves at exactly the same time every day, he then assembles a trio of criminals to help him rob the bank of its deposit: Pete Harris, a gambling addict; Tony Romano, a ladies' man; and Boyd Kane, a cold-blooded killer. Wearing a mask, Foster visits each separately and secures their services by threatening to turn them in to the police. On the day of the robbery, the four men, who also are masked to protect their identities, wait until the flower delivery truck pulls away from the curb, and then pull up in an identical truck. Pretending to be flower deliverers, they rob the armored bank truck of over one million dollars. They then drive the fake flower truck into an unmarked trailer, where Foster informs his crew that they will split the money at a later date, and gives each half of
8. Film Noir Friday: Kansas City Confidential [1952]
5 jul 2024 · For over a week, retired Kansas City police captain Tim Foster watches the Southwest Bank and the flower shop next door to ascertain the timing ...
Welcome! The lobby of the Deranged L.A. Crimes theater is open! Grab a bucket of popcorn, some Milk Duds and a Coke and find a seat. Tonight’s feature is KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL, starring John Payne, Coleen Gray, and Preston Foster. … Continue reading →
9. Kansas City Confidential (1952) - Turner Classic Movies - TCM
To commit the perfect crime, a former detective keeps his colleagues' identities secret from each other.
Watch TCM is the convenient way to watch great classic films when you want, where you want uncut, commercial free... and it's absolutely free.
10. Kansas City Confidential (1952) Classic Movie Review 278
9 jun 2022 · This movie has a fairly low 7.3[1] on iMDB.com. On Rottentomatoes.com, the film has an 80 percent on the Tomatometer and 76 [2] percent audience approval.
This is a solid Film Noir with a twist ending and the best set of bad guys in Kansas City Confidential (1952)
11. KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL (1952) - Film Noir Board
29 aug 2017 · Though KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL does not rely on darkness and shadows like many of its atmospheric noir cousins of the 1940s, when Rolfe assumes ...
A blog devoted to the classic American film noirs of the 1940s and 1950s.
12. Film review – Kansas City Confidential (1952) | The Kim Newman Web Site
7 jun 2017 · Phil Karlson's hardboiled noir, in which a perfect crime goes awry because the unintentional patsy takes umbrage and goes after the crooks on his own.
My notes on the hardboiled noir, currently in rotation on the Talking Pictures TV channel.
13. KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL - Dennis Schwartz Reviews
“An action-packed film noir directed by Phil Karlson.” ... Warning: spoilers throughout review. An action-packed film noir directed by Phil Karlson with a flare ...
KANSAS CITY CONFIDENTIAL
14. Kansas City Confidential | Public Domain Movies
Kansas City Confidential, an imaginative little noir from 1952, exemplifies the bread-and-butter United Artists 1950s in film....Mr. Karlson, interestingly, ...
Derived from the 4.4 GB high-definition version found here on this site.
