Kansas City Confidential

Zero Hour Films present
NOIRvember vol. 3
at Pleasant Street Theater

Saturday, Nov 21 at midnight only!
Special admission $3.00

This cult favorite opens with a Kansas City armored-car robbery perpetrated by cynical, corrupt ex-policeman Timothy Foster (Preston S. Foster). Foster devises an outrageous scheme: he will recruit three of the most vicious and unrelenting criminals he can find (screen heavies Lee Van Cleef, Jack Elam and Neville Brand) to undertake a robbery, blackmailing them into the heist with incriminating evidence from other "jobs."  The heist comes off without a scratch, but a complication arises when the ignorant cops pick up an unrelated fellow, Joe Rolfe (John Payne) for his ownership of a van similar to the one used in the caper.  Now he wants to find the real criminals!  Though produced under the Hays Code censorship regulations, Kansas City Confidential constituted one of the most brutal and violent crime pictures made up through that time.

Director Phil Karlson.  1952, 99 mins.