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

    Box office. $5 million (US/Canada rentals) [2][3] 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.

  2. www.tcm.com › tcmdb › titlePete Kelly's Blues (1955) - Turner Classic Movies

    Warner Home Video has released Pete Kelly's Blues as part of a group of four "blues" movies, each sold separately. The other titles are Blues in the Night (1941), which has music and Don Siegel montages as the best things going for it, 'Round Midnight (1986), starring Dexter Gordon in the '50s Parisian jazz world, and Bird (1988), with Forest Whitaker portraying Charlie Parker.

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  4. www.imdb.com › title › tt0048484Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) - IMDb

    Pete Kelly's Blues: Directed by Jack Webb. With Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien, Peggy Lee. 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.

  5. 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 ...

  6. www.allmovie.com › movie › pete-kellys-blues-am47031Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) - Jack Webb - AllMovie

    Description by 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.

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  7. www.filmaffinity.com › us › film914115Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) - FilmAffinity

    Genre Drama. Musical. Film noir 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.

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  9. 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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