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  1. www.rottentomatoes.com › m › pete_kellys_bluesPete Kelly's Blues - Rotten Tomatoes

    Pete Kelly's Blues is an incredible waste of tantalizing music and decor designed for the sole purpose of letting Jack Webb strut his stuff almost exactly as before. Aug 8, 2006. Jack Webb is a ...

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      Audience Member Slow-moving MGM operetta; the song "At the...

  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Pete_Kelly's_Blues_(film)Pete Kelly's Blues (film) - Wikipedia

    Pete Kelly's Blues is a 1955 musical crime film based on the 1951 radio series of the same name. It was directed by and starred Jack Webb in the title role of a bandleader and musician. Janet Leigh is featured as party girl Ivy Conrad, and Edmond O'Brien as a gangster who applies pressure to Kelly. Peggy Lee portrays alcoholic jazz singer Rose ...

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  4. www.empireonline.com › movies › reviewsPete Kelly’s Blues Review | Movie - Empire

    Jan 1, 2000 · Pete Kelly’s Blues. This is one of the great unheralded classics of 1950s American cinema. It opens with a cornet falling off a hearse during a New Orleans funeral, then cuts to a post-WWI ...

  5. dennisschwartzreviews.com › petekellysbluesPETE KELLY’S BLUES - Dennis Schwartz Reviews

    Aug 5, 2019 · Andy Devine plays the determined strong-armed detective trying to use Pete to put the gangster behind bars. Lee Marvin plays Webb’s clarinetist band member, who forms another band when Fran muscles in. The melancholy pic thrives on realism. Too bad it wastes a good jazz score on a dull gangster story. REVIEWED ON 7/11/2015 GRADE: C+.

  6. www.sensesofcinema.com › 2000 › cteqPete Kelly’s Blues - Senses of Cinema

    May 3, 2000 · Pete Kelly’s Blues. Pete Kelly’s Blues (1955 USA 95 mins) Cast: Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O’Brien, Peggy Lee, Andy Devine, Lee Marvin, Ella Fitzgerald, Jayne Mansfield. * * *. Jazz and the movies, homegrown arts of America, virtually grew up together. Despite their different sociologies and marketing histories they underwent artistic ...

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  7. heartofnoir.com › film › pete-kellys-blues-1955Pete Kelly's Blues, 1955 – Heart Of Noir

    Early on in Jack Webb’s Pete Kelly’s Blues, there’s a scene that demonstrates how film noir in color can be just as visually spectacular as in black and white: drummer Joey Firestone (Martin Milner) is gunned down in an alley, bullets spraying like gold flames popping against midnight blue, a beautiful fireworks display on the ground. Known for the stiffness of his Dragnet character ...

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  9. cinemasentries.com › pete-kellys-blues-1955-bluPete Kelly’s Blues (1955) Blu-ray Review: Uneven Musical ...

    Nov 8, 2014 · Pete Kelly’s Blues (1955) Blu-ray Review: Uneven Musical Gangster Noir (in Color) November 8, 2014 / Luigi Bastardo / No Comments Way back during those far-off days of the very early 1990s (he said in jest), I found myself – along with my peers – choosing an assignment for English from a number of eclectic books our teacher had on-hand.