Kansas City Confidential

Kansas City Confidential

1952 | 1h 39m | Noir, Crime | TV-PG

Brief Synopsis

A disgraced cop keeps his felonious colleagues' identities secret from each other to pull off the perfect heist. But when an innocent flower deliveryman is wrongly implicated in the crime, he sets out on a relentless pursuit to clear his name.

Cast and Crew

DIRECTOR

Phil Karlson

CAST

John Payne

Coleen Gray

Preston Foster

Neville Brand

Lee Van Cleef

Jack Elam

PRODUCERS

Edward Small

WRITERS

George Bruce

Harry Essex

Harold R. Greene

Rowland Brown

Host Intros

12:35
Noir Alley: Eddie Muller on Kansas City Confidential (1952)
Intro Aired: Feb 2020
Noir Alley host Eddie Mullers introduction and comments following Kansas City Confidential, 1952.
01:52
Ben Mankiewicz Intro -- Kansas City Confidential (1952)
Intro Aired: Mar 2018
Ben Mankiewicz introduces Kansas City Confidential, 1952.

Related Videos

Kansas City Confidential -- (Movie Clip) Lurid Chapters
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Opening scenes from director Phil Karlson with grim prologue then ex-cop Foster (Preston Foster) casing a bank job, observing delivery man Joe (John Payne) at work, in Kansas City Confidential, 1952.
Kansas City Confidential -- (Movie Clip) You Are From Tijuana?
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Framed Joe (John Payne) arrives with new friend Helen (Coleen Gray, her first scene, whom we will learn is the daughter of the master criminal) at the resort where Kane (Neville Brand) and Romano (Lee Van Cleef) realize he's taken the identity of their fellow hood, Teresa (Dona Drake) greeting, in Phil Karlson's Kansas City Confidential, 1952.
Kansas City Confidential -- (Movie Clip) You Were Framed, Then?
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Not guilty of a bank job, delivery man Joe (John Payne) being grilled by investigator Martin (Carleton Young) and not backed by his boss (Phil Tead), early in Phil Karlson's Kansas City Confidential, 1952.

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