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Monday, February 27, 2023
PETE KELSEY'S BOOZE
PETE KELLY'S BLUES (1955)
dir: Jack Webb
PETE KELSEY'S BOOZE
Snafu #2, February 1956
w: Stan Lee
a: Joe Maneely
Movie with Jack Webb as a Prohibition-era bandleader with Janet Leigh as Ivy Conrad, Peggy Lee as Rose Hopkins, Edmund O'Brien as Fran McCarg, Andy Devine as George Tennel, Lee Marvin as Gannaway, and Ella Fitzgerald as Maggie Jackson
The panels are wide because the movie is in Cinemascope.
Pete Conrad is a jazz cornetist leading a band at Kansas City playing various speakeasies and parties. He and the band are shaken down by McCarg, a notorious mobster who demands a cut of the band. At a party the next night they play a party at Ivy's where he and Pete meet and she's constantly coming on to him.
Pete's drummer, Joey Firestone (Martin Milner) drunkenly answers the phone at the party and tells McCarg off, for which he is gunned bown my McCarg's men the next night. Pete tries to come to terms with McCarg who demands his gun moll Rose become vocalist for the band. She doesn't really want to be there and has become and alcoholic. George is a detetective who has been trying to take McCarg down and enlists Pete's help.
Pete goes to take down McCarg and his gang but is interrupted by Ivy, who doesn't know what he's doing and wants the dance with her he promised. He reluctantly agrees, they're caught, a shootout ensues, he takes them down, and goes back to the way his life was.
I figure the guy at the end who's "in the wrong movie" must be Ben Alexander, who co-starred with Jack Webb in Dragnet in the '50s, playing Joe Friday's partner Frank Smith.
I figure the guy at the end who's "in the wrong movie" must be Ben Alexander, who co-starred with Jack Webb in Dragnet in the '50s, playing Joe Friday's partner Frank Smith.
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