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The Phenix City Story 1955 DVD John McIntire Richard Kiley Phil Karlson film noir Actors: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant, Edward Andrews Director: Phil Karlson 1hr 40min In this classic film noir semidocumentary, an Alabama town is run by a crime syndicate that's grown fat on prostitution and crooked gambling, directed at soldiers from Fort Benning across the river. Lawyer John Patterson, ...  more »back from the army, is triggered by what he sees to join the reformers with a plan: to run his father Albert for state attorney general. The syndicate responds with escalating violence: is no one safe? 1955 NTSC Black & White - Special Edition DVD REVIEW: Whether your a fan of Noir or not, The Phenix City Story remains superior filmaking on all levels regardless of it's budget and lack of special effects. While some may laugh at substituting a doll briefly for a dead child; it's follow up scene continues to have as much shocking impact today as it did upon it's release. To say this is textbook noir filmaking is too small as by all standards The Phenix City Story is the barometer by which crime, realism, fistfights and expose cinema is measured up to.  « less

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