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Pete Kelly's Blues
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1hr 35min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1955
Directors:
Harry S. Webb, Jack Webb
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Starring:
Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien  ...more
Synopsis: Pete Kelly's Blues is arguably the most stylish of director/star Jack Webb's theatrical features. Beginning with a brilliantly evocative pre-credits prologue, wherein we see how WWI vet Pete Kelly (Webb) came into possession of his precious trumpet, the film traces Kelly to his 1927 gig at a Kansas City speakeasy. Most of the film concerns Kelly's efforts to keep his "Big Seven" aggregation together, his off-and-on romance with socialite Ivy Conrad (Janet Leigh), and his frequent confrontations with ... Full Synopsis
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Craig Butler
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With another actor in the title role, Pete Kelly's Blues might have been a compelling, memorable little film. Not a classic, mind you, for the Richard Breen screenplay too often gives us the familiar and comfortable rather than the fresh and exciting, but it's good enough to have provided the basis for a small little gem. Jack Webb's direction is actually good; at all times solid, it sometimes moves ... Full Review
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Jack Webb
Pete Kelly
Janet Leigh
Ivy Conrad
Edmond O'Brien
Fran McCarg
Peggy Lee
Rose Hopkins
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