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Pete Kelly's Blues

Pete Kelly's Blues

1955
Drama, Crime
1h 35m
In 1927 Kansas City Pete Kelly and his jazz band play nightly at a speakeasy. A local gangster starts to move in on them and when their drummer is killed Kelly gives in, even though this also means taking the thug's alcoholic girl as a singer. Kelly soon realises he has made a big mistake selling out in this way and that rich girl Ivy is now the only decent thing in his life. (imdb)
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Pete Kelly's Blues

1955
Drama, Crime
1h 35m
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Rated 09 Oct 2011
78
47th
Jack Webb's ode to the 20s jazz scene in Kansas City has flashes of greatness throughout: when Webb (as Pete Kelly) and Janet Leigh dance by the light of a disco ball, it's breathtaking, not unlike the insane asylum sequence, with a haunting long take and striking sound design. The plot is fairly puny, but the acting is solid (Webb's performance, generally derided, is perfectly fine), and Webb's invention as a director keeps one watching. Also: the only film I know that references Coffeyville.
Rated 12 Dec 2016
75
44th
The lead character and performance are very good, creating a character that just barely holds the film together. It's full of musical numbers appropriate for a mood piece, one note villains worthy of a gangster film, Lee Marvin who is totally underused, and an awkward romance that could be sympathetic if it were given time enough to be meaningful. All these things are jammed together and they work enough to make a fun little story, but they also keep the film from flourishing in any area.
Rated 15 Jul 2020
45
46th
Jack Webb speaks in the same tones, whether he is alone with a girl or facing down a bad guy with a gun. It works for Dragnet but was unsettling in this drama.

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