Kansas City Confidential is a 1952 American film noir crime film directed by Phil Karlson starring John Payne and Coleen Gray. The film was released in the United Kingdom as The Secret Four. Karlson and Payne teamed up a year later for 99 River Street, another noir, followed by a 1955 color film noir, Hell's Island.

CAST:-
John Payne as Joe Rolfe/Peter Harris
Coleen Gray as Helen Foster aka Pumpkin
Preston Foster as Tim Foster
Neville Brand as Boyd Kane
Lee Van Cleef as Tony Romano
Jack Elam as Pete Harris aka Johnson

Directed by Phil Karlson
Produced by Edward Small
Screenplay by George Bruce
Running time 99 minutes

SYNOPSIS:- Kansas City Confidential (1952)
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.

From a hotel room window a man observes the delivery of millions of dollars in cash to a bank across the street. Through several days the man observes and times the routine of the armored truck crew, noticing how a panel truck always arrives to deliver flowers to the shop located next door to the bank just before the armored car arrives. The unnamed man (Preston Foster) recruits three criminals to help him rob the armored truck- Pete Harris (Jack Elam), Boyd Kane (Neville Brand), and Tony Romano (Lee Van Cleef). The master mind keeps himself masked in these encounters and explains to all the thieves they will remain masked throughout the heist to avoid identification. During the robbery they use a delivery truck identical to the florist truck. The police chase and arrest the driver of the delivery truck, Joe Rolfe (John Payne), an ex-convict. As they escape the master mind tells the thieves they will be contacted later to collect their share of the money, as a countermark each of the thieves is given half of a playing card, the mastermind keeping the other half.

The police sadistically beat up Rolfe trying to get him to confess to the heist. An insurance agent promises him twenty percent of the money if he helps in recovering the missing money -two million dollars. The police let Rolfe go when the duplicate delivery truck is found. Rolfe decides to go after the thieves to get even for being framed and to get the reward money.

Following a tip from a local underworld figure Rolfe follows Harris to Tijuana, once there he strong arm Harris into letting him join in the money split meeting that is to take place in a Mexican resort town.

As they arrive at the airport a chance encounter with the police leaves Harris dead, leaving Rolfe free to take his identity. Rolfe arrives at the resort and meets Helen Foster (Coleen Gray) the daughter of the master thief himself. We learn that he is Tim Foster, a retired police Kansas City officer bitter about his meager pension who planned the heist to get the reward money and to shame the Kansas City police department. Foster arranges an ambush to get the thieves killed and keep the money. Kane and Romano figure that Rolfe has replaced Harris and try to get rid of him but he turns the tables on them. At the meeting the Foster and the two thieves get killed, leaving Rolfe free to join Helen Foster.

Kane and Romano are not finished with Rolfe. They waylay Rolfe and discover he's going to the boat. All three are driven there by Foster, who they still don't know is Mr. Big. On board the boat, Rolfe escapes and finds the stolen money in a cabinet. Romano, gun in hand, confronts him. Rolfe shows him where the money is. Romano, greedy, kills Kane and is ready to take all the money and kill Rolfe, but Foster, trying to save his unraveling plan, intervenes. But he slips and reveals he is Mr. Big. In a resulting gun battle, Foster kills Romano but not before Romano shoots him. As Foster is dying, he tells Rolfe his one wish is that Helen doesn't find out his duplicity. With his dying breath, he tells insurance investigator Scott that Rolfe deserves the 25% reward of $300,000.

Rolfe and Helen comfort each other after her father's death. Later, Rolfe asks Scott how she's taking it. Scott gestures at Helen and says meaningfully to Rolfe, “Why don't you ask her?” She smiles in emotional release, and they kiss.





TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:-
Video Codec: MPEG-2
Video Bitrate: 6125 Mbps
Video Resolution: 720x480
Video Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Frames Per Second: 23.976
Audio Codec: AC3
Audio Bitrate: 192kb/s CBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: English, Francais
RunTime 99 mins
Subtitles: English, Francais, Espanol
Source DVD5
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