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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 163

Kansas City Confidential

195299 minUnited States

Film noir Crime

Video edition: YouTube
Original language: English
This copy runs: 99:16
Subtitles: English

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Synopsis

A masked organiser recruits men for a robbery that uses a duplicate delivery truck. The real driver becomes entangled in the consequences of a plan designed to keep its participants anonymous. Clearing his name requires entering the thieves' guarded world.

Cast

John Payne

Joe Rolfe

Coleen Gray

Helen Foster

Preston Foster

Tim Foster

Neville Brand

Boyd Kane

DirectorsPhil Karlson

Behind the scenes

The film was the sole production of Associated Players and Producers, formed by Edward Small, Sol Lesser and Sam Briskin. It also began Small's new multi-picture arrangement with United Artists.

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John Payne — Bureau of Industrial Service. This was a division of ad agency Young & Rubicam and was used widely by those in the television industry for distributing publicity material. · Public domain
Coleen Gray — Studio Publicity · Public domain
Preston Foster — Photographer not credited · Public domain
Neville Brand — NBC Television · Public domain

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