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3 unusual facts about Kansas City Confidential


Kansas City Confidential

The recruits are three young actors who would come to define menace in the ’50s and beyond: Neville Brand, Jack Elam and Lee Van Cleef, who here has his best role before For a Few Dollars More.

With refinements, he would continue to pursue this theme (revenge) and this style, right up through his creative resurgence in the ’70s: Ben (1972), Walking Tall (1973) and Framed (1975).

:Kansas City Confidential, an imaginative little noir from 1952, exemplifies the bread-and-butter UA film of the ’50s....



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