Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
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Cast
as Pete Kelly
as Ivy Conrad
as Fran McCarg
as Rose Hopkins
as George Tenell
as Al Gannaway
as Maggie Jackson
as Joey Firestone
as Cigarette Girl
as Rudy
as Bedido
as Guy Bettenhouser
as Cootie Jacobs
as Squat Henchman
as Guy Bettenhouser
as Dako
as Cornetist
as Clarinetist
as Trombonist
as Saxophonist
as Guitarist
as Drummer
as Bass Player
as Waiter in Rudy's
as Featured Members of the Tuxedo Band
as Featured Members of the Tuxedo Band
as Featured Members of the Tuxedo Band
Critic Reviews for Pete Kelly's Blues
All Critics (3) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (1)
Jazz fans, except the ultra-cool school, will enjoy the music, and the film is well worth seeing as well as hearing in spite of several contrived and incoherent touches. With Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee.
Tedious but well-photographed atmospheric jazz pic from the Prohibition era.
Like Love Me or Leave Me, also made in 1955, Webb's film is set in the golden age of Prohibition, mixing crime-gangster drama with great jazz music by the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee, who received a Supporting Oscar nomination.
Audience Reviews for Pete Kelly's Blues
There are some wonderful things in this, foremost Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee spreading their special brands of magic, both are luminous. The music is good and Andy Devine, without his trademark voice, is a revelation in a gritty part as a dogged cop. And Edmond O'Brien could play the venal gangster like few others. All these are highly enjoyable but stuck in the center is the absolutely awful Jack Webb, the man makes a blank wall look expressive and that a beauty like Janet Leigh would go to such lengths to catch him makes her seem either seriously misguided or a total idiot. Still for the great stuff contained within its worth at least a view.
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