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The Phenix City Story. Richard Kiley stars in this gripping crime drama about a crusading lawyer who takes on the corrupt machine running a Southern town, based on actual events. Phenix City was known as the "Sin City" of Alabama where gambling, prostitution, and any number of other vices were tolerated openly by the law as organized crime ...
The Phenix City Story is directed by Phil Karlson and written by Daniel Mainwaring and Crane Wilbur. It stars John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant, Edward Andrews and John Larch. Music is by Harry Sukman and cinematography by Harry Neumann.
The Phenix City Story. Richard Kiley stars in this gripping crime drama about a crusading lawyer who takes on the corrupt machine running a Southern town, based on actual events. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
Phenix City, Alabama, was called “the wickedest city in America,” notorious for the gambling and prostitution rackets owned by its crime syndicate, and Karlson’s film dramatizes the real story of lawyer and DA candidate Al Patterson (John McIntire) and his son John (Richard Kiley), a military attorney recently returned from Germany, as ...
The Phenix City Story Vice, Southern style, gets the expose treatment in phenix City Story. Production mostly hews to provable incident, with some coloring or rearrangement for dramatic emphasis.
The Phenix City Story also deals full on and at an early date with the problems of black people in the United States. On docu-style display and in drama, the systematic discrimination and prejudice against African Americans is on stark display in a manner that was most rare in the 1950s.
THE PHENIX CITY STORY (1955, Phil Karlson) Near-documentary treatment — based on fact and filmed on the real locations — of lawyer Richard Kiley’s return to clean up his crime- ridden hometown of Phenix, Alabama. Approx. 100 min. 35mm. 2:10, 5:50, 9:30 “Gritty and hard... every bit as sleazy as the subject it treats.” – Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader HE WALKED BY NIGHT (1948, Alfred ...
