Film · Crime, Drama, Music
Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
A jazz-man of the wide-open '20s - caught in the crossfire of its blazing .38s!
In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.
- Director
- Jack Webb
- Writers
- Richard L. Breen
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Release date
- July 31, 1955
Cast
Jack WebbPete Kelly
Janet LeighIvy Conrad
Edmond O'BrienFran McCarg
Peggy LeeRose Hopkins
Andy DevineGeorge Tenell
Lee MarvinAl Gannaway
Ella FitzgeraldMaggie Jackson
Martin MilnerJoey Firestone
Than WyennRudy Shulak
Herbert EllisBedido
John DennisGuy Bettenhouser
Jayne MansfieldCigarette Girl- Mort MarshallCootie Jacobs
- Moe SchneiderTrombonist (Big 7)
- George Van EpsGuitarist (Big 7)
- Ray ShermanPianist (Big 7)
- Dick CathcartTrumpet Player / Webb's Cornet Double
- Matty MatlockClarinetist (Big 7)
- Eddie MillerSaxophonist (Big 7)
- Nick FatoolDrummer (Big 7)
