The Story
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Kansas City Confidential
The Crime That Shocked The Nation!
The Story
An ex-con framed for an armoured-car heist sets out to hunt the masked crew who set him up.
The robbery's mastermind keeps his three hired guns anonymous, each known only by a torn playing card, but the wrongly accused Joe Rolfe refuses to let it rest. Trailing one robber to a sun-baked Mexican resort, Rolfe takes the dead man's place and works his way inside the gang, never knowing who among them is pulling the strings. A tough, twisty noir whose heist setup later inspired Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs.
- Director
- Phil Karlson
- Year
- 1952
- Runtime
- 100 min
- Genres
- Crime
Principal Cast
- John PayneJoe Rolfe
- Coleen GrayHelen Foster
- Preston FosterTim Foster
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