Now I don’t want to do a Mike Fannin and over dramatize things, but frankly – and somewhat too my surprise – I was blown away. At home, it’s quiet. People were frightened, they needed their feet firmly planted, whereas everybody else was hopping from stone to stone, not believing it was even possible to slip and fall into the water. ), In fact, Rusty was convinced that this fatuous exercise was a sterling credential qualifying him for high office. Saying even the most benign positive thing about anything Hawley would be the equivalent of devil worshiping, rooting for the old Oakland Raiders or supporting child pornography. Brought back by a memory I know Glazer would vividly recall about a handful of years back when the actor formerly known as Screech headlined  Stanford’s Comedy Club in Overland Park. Kansas City Confidential is a 1952 American film noir and crime film starring John Payne and Coleen Gray. 1952 Directed by Phil Karlson. (Yet another acquaintance was killed as a result of this gun violence. It’s a circle jerk, I tell you. gonna miss ya hc. Matters got to the point after one hearing where I told Jones that I would take him outside the courthouse and further disfigure his already repulsive face, fit only for scaring small children. I digress, my confession is less dramatic, but I have too tell you I nodded off a time or two during the early part of the blockbuster movie Tenet at AMC’s Ward Parkway theater. (Amazing that he also did Walking Tall!Oh well...). Ilus Davis has just defeated Dutton Brookfield a few months earlier to become Mayor of Kansas City, succeeding the legendary H. … So pay close attention as the film rapidly bounces within elements of time and could otherwise leave you behind. Once upon a time, I was the loose cannon at KC’s local newspaper of record. Ever since then. I fell in love with this movie the first time I watched it, which was only about three weeks ago. At first we believed in our country, were excited by the space program, by the possibilities. America was the land of possibilities, and our generation spearheaded it. Now you can achieve what they’re calling a “feature” – and get a limited edition T-shirt and your name in an annual print ad slated to appear in the print Pitch. Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2012. As long as he got paid ($150.00? Let’s start from the beginning. plus-circle Add Review. Four robbers hold up an armored truck getting away with over a million dollars in cash. This much I can assure you though:  prior to her stroke, Coe took as many shots from and suffered as much disrespect as the Star could dish out. (Prices may vary for AK and HI.). 1952; 1 hr 38 mins Drama NR Watchlist. Karlson and Payne teamed a year later for 99 River Street, another film noir, followed by Hell's Island, 'Kansas City Confidential' has little to do with the Midwestern city in its title (most of the movie takes place in Mexico), but that's where its twisted plot commences. Hearne: What Did I (Just) Tell You, Chiefs Fans? YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND IN WILLARD AND BEN It makes sense that a sequel to the 1971 hit Willard appeared within the next year. I remembered that it was about a bunch of old guys in suits who rob a bank then have a falling out. Loyal readers:can now become “a member” for 50 bucks a year. My life is still pretty much upside down, waiting for new a garage door and front door and a complete repainting of the interior of the house. Rising GOP star Josh Hawley to name one. Then again, the Grammy voters, just like the Oscar voters, have contempt for this popular stuff. Next, we had the Green New Deal mantra, which has now even been repudiated by noted right wing corporate shill Michael Moore and former climate change activist and Obama administration official Michael Shellenberger. At which point we can finally begin unpacking stuff, hanging pictures, hooking up audio-video systems, getting in  new furniture and basically what passes for real life. It was a non stop roller coaster ride of violence, chase scenes, explosions and dramatic effects…quilted together with a somewhat tepid plot that required of my wife’s 23 year-old daughter to rate the movie an 8 on a scale of 10. That and a host of other remedies still being sorted things out with the insurance company. This meant that Mr. Jones was free to engage in every kind of unethical conduct imaginable, against both me and my client, in order to get us to drop the claim against him. Then and only then can I set aside time to comment on the state of things Kansas City. At which point in trying to get away, Sutherland was struck by the SUV and fell to the ground. But you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet… Continue reading →. the Green New Deal,” Sutherland says. Shoot, I graduated from high school and attended college in Tucson and most people here that went to the University of Arizona conceded that Tucson was a far better city, but if you wanted to get ahead in life, you moved to Phoenix. But like so many other 2020 tentpole titles “TENET” was pushed back on Warner Brothers’ release schedule to coincide with the ever fluid state of the world’s pandemic and its effect on national, regional and local health advisories. While interviewing the three men Foster wears a mask so they cannot identify him. Those ubiquitous, post George Floyd, post riots, post defund the police black yard signs that read as follows: There might be a Land Rover, Mercedes or Tesla in the upscale suburban driveway that home owners wouldn’t dare desecrate with a political bumper sticker, yet they’ve got these colorful, attention drawing signs smack in the middle of their front yard. Although the tide started to turn on the coast in the early ’60s, the pace was slower elsewhere. Hats flew by the wayside with Kennedy’s inauguration. southy get beat but that’s life in today’s world. Brief content visible, double tap to read full content. This was followed by anti-gun messages, which ring a little hollow now that we’re going to defund the police and when calling 911 is an act of white privilege, i.e. Kansas City Confidential is a 1952 American film noir and crime film directed by Phil Karlson starring John Payne and Coleen Gray. He finds himself set up as a patsy who is picked up on suspicion of committing a robbery that was actually orchestrated by a former Kansas City police officer Tim Foster played by Preston Foster. OK, Walt Disney is hard to argue with – less so Rush Limbaugh, Pay Metheny or Mancow Muller. Ah but now I’m living large in Oro Valley, a subburb the equivalent of say Leawood. Tightly plotted and perfectly cast, Kansas City Confidential is film noir at its finest. Boomers today wear jeans and run marathons and are teenagers until they pass. Guess I bought into all the arguments about us having the Nelson Atkins Museum, the Chiefs and Royals football and baseball teams and an “international” airport. Sutherland was waiting for a former FBI investigator to mount surveillance cameras, but decided to wait up to see if he could catch the culprit that sixth night. Kansas City Confidential gets a pretty bad rap, with some folks finding it dull and unbelievable, but it’s got more than enough going for it that it can hold its head up in any crime line-up of the time. Rusty was unfazed by the fact that such attempts were abject failures and that any sentient human should have known that they were doomed to fail at a time when the different factions on campus were engaged in a literal shooting war. Fannin actually goes to church? A nameless, ruthless man Tim Foster, (Preston Foster), who goes by the name of Mr. Big, is planning a bank heist from one of the armoured cars containing lots of bank money. Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2019. Real tough guy stuff with the ladies hardly getting a look in except for a seductive innuendo and a few teardrops here and there. The flip side of that being that tons of things have changed since I last lived in Tucson. We’d brooked no crisis until the advent of the Vietnam War. I saw this on tv back in the 60s, maybe early 70s, as a teen, young adult. We were both active in Johnson County Republican politics and I supported him when he ran for Congress in 1984. Still finding myself front and center with a gigantic screen and killer-beyond-belied sound effects was nothing short of amazing. And the experience, especially in this age of smartphones, can be so distracting as to convince people not to attend. 71. per court appearance he tolerated his erstwhile client engaging in unethical and even criminal activities. But he's also hatched a scheme to double-cross his accomplices and frame an innocent man for the crime. Like your hair… Crew cut and then after the Beatles, long. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. Therefore they don’t want to make any “small” pictures. Source for information on Kansas City Confidential: VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever dictionary. As in three long distance moving trips from Kansas City to Oro Valley, Arizona in Tucson (where I graduated from high school and attended the University of Arizona), six weeks of apartment living and house hunting, a couple weeks of Covid 19 action and a small house fire that necessitated a month of living in the glamorous Hilton Conquistador. It's really too bad, because the restoration was fine. In the end, I concluded that Rusty Leffel was weak willed and devious, i.e. The Pitch has been mooching money from readers for years. “These are just mindless generalities,” says Mission Hills attorney Dwight Sutherland. As a matter of fact, studios cut down production. It arrived in prefect condition. How could I miss for example, the gigantic, never-ending mea culpa by the Kansas City Star, fessing up to Dwight Sutherland and others pointing out for years the newspaper’s patently racist, sexist resume and past (including recent). Of course, there was a generation gap, our parents were the last generation that got old. Return with me now to the sixth night of Mission Hills conservative Dwight Sutherland‘s Trump and Roger Marshall yard sign’s being mowed down by somebody with a penchant for driving up on Sutherland’s yard – at first just to knock them down and then later to steals them. this up. Genres : Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller An ex-con trying to go straight is framed for a million dollar armored car robbery and must go to Mexico in order to unmask the real culprits. Just like in the 1960s when you heard all these sayings like, ‘give peace a chance’ and ‘what if they gave a war and nobody came?’ Do you think if you lived in Russia, Cuba or Vietnam you could be a conscientious objector? There really are no quote-unquote loose cannons these days; because just about everyone who works there is a loose cannon. It left the street and instead of just mowing down the signs, stopped in his yard and began to grab the signs. He never crossed you. A nameless, ruthless man Tim Foster, (Preston Foster), who goes by the name of Mr. Big, is planning a bank heist from one of the armoured cars containing lots of bank money. It makes sense that this sequel focused on the rat Ben and would be called Ben, given the previous film’s rather downbeat ending. They want them to come here so they can vote and convert the nation to a one party state. I can’t recall ever seeing Jack Elam young; much like Walter Brennan he tended to play older men. digger and southy who got beat. Never thought much about the day I’d long for deceased comedy king Craig Glazer... Just saw a news break about “Saved by the Bell” star Dustin Diamond blowing taps. How huge was the story in KC at the time? By thinking he could manipulate the legal process in this manner to his benefit, Leffel also squandered a large part of people’s lives, not least of it his own. I turned around in surprise, only to see Jones, Leffel’s client, standing there smirking. Funny thing, that’s kinda how I felt after reading Fannin’s pot boiler. In the ’50s…the underground was truly underground. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. And I am no longer living in Kansas City. I remember enjoying this film many years' ago, but it has not stood the 'test of time' unfortunately. Never mind that 182 countries have suffered from the pandemic.” Continue reading →, I first met Russell “Rusty” Leffel 40 plus years ago…. They will Ties faded, bell bottoms arrived, along with paisley…your clothes were a statement…you were either with us or against us. A mystery man sends the three to other countries to wait for the final payout. Karlson and Payne teamed a year later for 99 River Street, another film noir, followed by Hell's Island, a film noir in color. Lennon said the taboo, that the band was bigger than Jesus – and they were – the back to God movement didn’t really start until the ’70s. “But now it’s taken on another meaning, that we have to shut the country down until we get a coronavirus vaccine, which will be during the Joe Biden administration. John Payne (actor) - Wikipedia He then … But Bob, people still want to go to the theatre! As it approached Sutherland gave its windshield a whack as it veered into him, then sped off.. Sutherland hit the pavement with multiple injuries resulting in an ambulance ride with a PV / Mission Hills policeman who took his statement and expressed sympathy, saying that whoever did it would get his just desserts once the police determined who it was. Well acted and with an interesting plot line , this film is only limited in being obviously produced with a fairly limited budget. Defective Blu Ray. Oh, what the heck. Publication date 1952 Usage Public Domain Topics Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, pdmovies Publisher United Artists Digitizing sponsor k-otic.com. Or to race up to cars at traffic signals, smear soapy substances on some their windshield ,then charge them to make things right. I’m not exactly sure what happened these past four years…. As with most of Nolan’s films expect the unexpected—and in a massive cinematic way tailored for the BIG SCREEN. I don’t want to bore you – anymore than I already have – but as lame excuses for not writing go, that’s a decent list. Please try again. (Black & White), Kansas City Confidential ... Apply to Retail Advisor, Operations Associate, Human Resources Specialist and more! When released, he scours the underworld for the real thieves. How do you answer that? Thing is, I don’t plan on actually going there. Sure, drugs were part of the equation, but they were billed as a way to expand your mind. Continue reading →. He heard someone exit the car and some talking. Paraphrasing Robert Louis Stephenson’s classic volume of children’s poetry, A Child’s Garden of Verses, Leffel has created A Child’s Garden of Clichés, Leftist Variety. Where to Watch. You won’t find this story on the Pitch website as it went down in 1990, years prior to the alt weekly’s foray into the Internet. So while it missed out on the opportunity to call out the Chiefs and fans for still doing the tomahawk chop and “war chant” at the recent playoff game against Buffalo – instead yesterday the Star jammed in “A story on Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes, a Black man as the face off the NFL and Kansas City.”. I even remember when Don Cheadle was beginning to make it big. We were in it together, developing together, and we knew it all. A down-on-his-luck ex-GI finds himself framed for an armored car robbery. During the halftime I was outside the gym, talking to another parent, when I felt someone punch me in the small of the back. If you win a big award the studio can advertise such, but an Oscar is barely more meaningful than a Grammy – which no longer gives you a sales bounce, which is employed by most musicians as a line on their resumé – to hopefully increase live bookings. It ain’t easy being a conservative, registered Republican in Johnson County these days – let alone in Mission Hills. Why not have a little reality/accountability for our new racially in tune pals at KC’s newspaper of record? If that sounds trite, allow me to add that since right before November’s election until present, I’ve kind of been busy. Continue reading →. Hey, it’s not as if they are alone in following this path. New Jack City: Politically Correct—Or Just The Right Thing To Do. But it surfaced in the ’60s – the Beat poets – never mind Bob Dylan and the folk scene and then the Beatles. As in putting up Donald Trump for president yard signs for all to see. Unable to find a story from that night, I did do a bit of digging and here’s what  I found… Continue reading →. A disgruntled ex-con gets arrested for the crime on circumstantial evidence. So what am I doing here in the desert reliving my lost youth? I never fully understood that at first – nor did it matter – but I grew into understand it better, after I began promoting concerts and writing for The Pitch and Star. Kansas City Confidential, Movie, 1952 Pictures provided by: sixcyl Display options: Display as images Display as list Make and model Make and year Year Category Importance/Role Date added (new ones first) Episode Appearance (ep.+time, if avail.) Later on I had the misfortune to have a lawsuit in which Rusty “represented” someone I was suing. Ah, but for a mere hondo ($100), you get all that plus discounts on “select” Pitch events -should they ever come to pass, post pandemic – and, “access” to giveaways like concert tickets and flood coupons – again – should concerts ever return post pandemic. By allowing his client to drag the matter out for so long, with no valid defense to our modest claim, Leffel cost both sides in fees a sum representing two or three times the actual amount in controversy. And by time the decade ended there was so much going on and you were aware of all of it. If you want to talk to your spouse, no one complains. He selects three men for the gang – the addictive gambler, Peter Harris (Jack Elam), wanted for murder gum-chewing thug Boyd Kane (Neville Brand) and the womanizing Tony Romano (Lee Van Cleef). great site. The film was released in the United Kingdom as The Secret Four. It’s hard to say which came first – the chicken or the egg – in terms of who disliked who the most. This group was started by Leffel to initiate a “dialogue” between the leftist radicals-who burned down the Student Union that year, 1970-and the other students, in order to “find common ground.”  Another friend of mine also tried to “reach out,” to begin a “conversation” with militant black students and ended up being so badly beaten up for his efforts that he was hospitalized. After all, slime ball Kansas City Star editor Mike Fannin didn’t mind laying down a phony “tear jerker” about how his mom came to visit and the whole family had to endure a gut-wrenching bout of Covid before moving on with their lives (as most coronavirus cases do under the age of 80, sans underlying issues or being massively overweight). Does anybody with half a clue actually believe Fannin’s a clean cut dude who hasn’t made more than his share of racist, sexist jokes and remarks, had a career of getting hammered, arrested and dipping his proverbial pen in the company ink via an attractive married woman wh0 answered directly to him for both her sports editor job and paycheck. And it still rules for many boomers. That was a sucker move, burning down your boss. Even though I’d voted for Obama twice (which drives the Stomper crazy trying to label me a Republican). Kansas City Confidential (1952) Full Cast & Crew. Unless of course, I want to…which means, I likely will…albeit on far more measured basis. RATS! But beneath the amorphous generalities there lurk very real,very ugly,very extreme policies that they are intended to conceal.”, “They sound profound, but they’re actually just platitudes and they’re so broad that they’re meaningless. Especially the part about his mom’s voice growing stronger on Day  4 as the treatments “took hold and the prayers continued pouring in from across the country.”. A brutal crime film that punches and kicks its way into audiences' unsuspecting faces. All home to some of the world’s most popular and competitive film festivals. When I went public and started writing I had to defend myself for jokingly referring to KC via its rural roots. 98m/B VHS, DVD . Continue reading →. ”, “That’s climate change ,i.e. However, the former alt weekly – now a monthly freebie under new owners – is upping the ante. Kansas City Confidential is a 1952 American film noir and crime film starring John Payne and Coleen Gray. The New York Times criticized the film for its excess use of violence: "An uncommon lot of face slapping, stomach punching, and kicking in the groin, the standard manifestations of the virulence of mobsters and criminals on the screen." 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