Pete Kelly's Blues

  • Crime
  • Drama
  • Music
7/31/1955
95
NR

A jazz-man of the wide-open '20s - caught in the crossfire of its blazing .38s!

In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.

Director:
Jack Webb
Writer:
Richard L. Breen
    • jazz
    • prohibition era
    • gangster
    • jazz singer or musician
    • horn
    • extortion
    • kansas city
    • speakeasy
    • protection racket
    • jazz band
    • band leader
    • 1920s
    • alcoholic woman
    • cornetist

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    Cast

    • Jack Webb
      Pete Kelly
    • Janet Leigh
      Ivy Conrad
    • Edmond O'Brien
      Fran McCarg
    • Peggy Lee
      Rose Hopkins
    • Andy Devine
      George Tenell
    • Lee Marvin
      Al Gannaway
    • Ella Fitzgerald
      Maggie Jackson
    • Martin Milner
      Joey Firestone
    • Than Wyenn
      Rudy Shulak
    • Herbert Ellis
      Bedido
    • John Dennis
      Guy Bettenhouser
    • Jayne Mansfield
      Cigarette Girl
    • Mort Marshall
      Cootie Jacobs
    • Moe Schneider
      Trombonist (Big 7)
    • George Van Eps
      Guitarist (Big 7)
    • Ray Sherman
      Pianist (Big 7)

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