Jack Webb
This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.
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…
Two homicide detectives try to find just the facts behind a mobster”s brutal murder.
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.