Pete Kelly's Blues

1955 • 95 minutes
5.0
4 reviews
60%
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Eligible
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In the 1920s, a small band playing the speakeasies has trouble when a racketeer decides he's going into the agency business and wants a cut from the band. Jack Webb ("Dragnet") directs and stars in this fascinating tale of jazz and gangsters in prohibition-era Kansas City. Featuring an all-star cast including Janet Leigh ("Psycho"), Lee Marvin ("The Dirty Dozen"), 50s pin-up star Jayne Mansfield, and legendary singers Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee ("The Jazz Singer"), who was nominated for an Academy Award for her performance.

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