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Kansas City Confidential (1952)

Name: Kansas City Confidential
Genre: Crime & Mystery
Released: 1952
Duration: 1 h 39 min
Cast: Mario Siletti, Lee Van Cleef, Jack Elam, John Payne, Preston Foster

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Kansas City Confidential (1952) is a 99-minute crime and mystery film that airs free on Starlite TV's Case Files (CH 9) channel. Our rights research indicates it is in the U.S. public domain (evidence below). Directed by Phil Karlson.

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About Kansas City Confidential (1952)

Kansas City Confidential (released in the United Kingdom as The Secret Four) is a 1952 American crime film noir directed by Phil Karlson and starring John Payne and Coleen Gray.

The ruthless Mr. Big is timing the arrival of an armored car collecting money from a bank and a flower delivery truck driven by deliveryman Joe Rolfe. He plans to rob the armored car with Peter Harris, Boyd Kane and Tony Romano, men whom he interviewed while wearing a mask so that they cannot identify him. The plan, which includes a duplicate flower truck, proceeds as planned, and the crooks also wear masks to prevent identification. The gang arrives in the lookalike floral truck as Rolfe, unaware, drives away. The gang subdues the armored-car crew, grabs the money and flees.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article Kansas City Confidential (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Phil Karlson
Cast includes: Mario Siletti, Lee Van Cleef, Jack Elam, John Payne, Preston Foster, Coleen Gray, House Peters, Jr., Don Orlando
Country: United States

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Adrenaline - CH 1, Action TV
Case Files - CH 9, Crime & Mystery TV

Rights & source

Basis: Documented as U.S. public domain (e.g. copyright not renewed / no notice)
Evidence: Listed in Wikipedia 'List of films in the public domain in the United States' - reason: Copyright not renewed (cites Pierce 2007 / Fishman / trade sources). Copyright not renewed.
License on source: creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain
Music: Film soundtrack falls with the film; separately published songs (if any) not individually cleared.
Underlying rights: Copyright not renewed.
Source: Internet Archive

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