Noir Alley: Eddie Muller on Kansas City Confidential (1952)

Kansas City Confidential -- (Movie Clip) You Are From Tijuana?

Framed Joe (John Payne) arrives with new friend Helen (Coleen Gray, her first scene, whom we will learn is the daughter of the master criminal) at the resort where Kane (Neville Brand) and Romano (Lee Van Cleef) realize he's taken the identity of their fellow hood, Teresa (Dona Drake) greeting, in Phil Karlson's Kansas City Confidential, 1952.

Kansas City Confidential -- (Movie Clip) You Were Framed, Then?

Not guilty of a bank job, delivery man Joe (John Payne) being grilled by investigator Martin (Carleton Young) and not backed by his boss (Phil Tead), early in Phil Karlson's Kansas City Confidential, 1952.

Kansas City Confidential -- (Movie Clip) Lurid Chapters

Opening scenes from director Phil Karlson with grim prologue then ex-cop Foster (Preston Foster) casing a bank job, observing delivery man Joe (John Payne) at work, in Kansas City Confidential, 1952.