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The Phenix City Story is a 1955 Ripped from the Headlines American Film Noir about the 1954 assassination of Albert Patterson in Phenix City, Alabama. The film was directed by Phil Karlson and stars John McIntire as Al Patterson and Richard Kiley …
"The Phenix City Story" is a brutal, hard-hitting docudrama about what was once dubbed the "wickedest town in America." The film documents the events that led up to the murder by the Phenix City crime syndicate of Albert Patterson, an Alabama attorney who made a bid for the state attorney general's office as a way to clean up the vice and corruption plaguing his hometown.
The Phenix City Story, then should be commended for having attempted to dis- close to the wide public an undistorted image of one of the standing ills that afflict our society. Full Review | Mar ...
The Phenix City Story is a 1955 American crime movie directed by Phil Karlson and starring John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant, Edward Andrews, James Edwards, Lenka Peterson, Biff McGuire, Jean Carson, Helen Martin. Other websites. The Phenix City Story on IMDb; The Phenix City Story at AllMovie
A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.
A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.
Genre Film noir. Drama | Crime. Gambling. Social Drama. Based on a true story Synopsis Based on actual events, The Phenix City Story tells the tale of a wide-open "Sin City" in Alabama where gambling, prostitution, and any number of other vices were tolerated openly by the law, most of it centered on the main downtown drag, 14th Street, thanks to the 50-year influence of organized crime on the ...
