Pete Kelly's Blues
Summary:
Pete Kelly's Blues is arguably the most stylish of director/star Jack Webb's theatrical features. Beginning with a brilliantly evocative pre-credits prologue, wherein we see how WWI vet Pete Kelly (Webb) came into possession of his precious trumpet, the film traces Kelly to his 1927 gig at a Kansas City speakeasy. Most of the film concerns Kelly's efforts to keep his "B... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Jack Webb - (Pete Kelly)
Janet Leigh - (Ivy Conrad)
Edmond O'Brien - (Fran McCarg)
Peggy Lee - (Rose Hopkins)
Andy Devine - (George Tenell)
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Review:
With another actor in the title role, Pete Kelly's Blues might have been a compelling, memorable little film. Not a classic, mind you, for the Richard Breen screenplay too often gives us the familiar and comfortable rather than the fresh and exciting, but it's good enough to have provided the basis for a small little gem. Jack Webb's direc... Continue >>
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