Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)
A jazz-man of the wide-open '20s - caught in the crossfire of its blazing .38s!
Genre : Crime, Drama, Music
Runtime : 1H 35M
Director : Jack Webb
Writer : Richard L. Breen
Synopsis
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.
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