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Pete Kelly's Blues

1955

1h 35m

6.10

Crime, Drama, Music

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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.

Cast

Jack Webb

Pete Kelly

Janet Leigh

Ivy Conrad

Edmond O'Brien

Fran McCarg

Peggy Lee

Rose Hopkins

Andy Devine

George Tenell

Lee Marvin

Al Gannaway

Ella Fitzgerald

Maggie Jackson

Martin Milner

Joey Firestone

Than Wyenn

Rudy Shulak

Herbert Ellis

Bedido

John Dennis

Guy Bettenhouser

Jayne Mansfield

Cigarette Girl

Harper Goff

Tuxedo Band Banjo Player (uncredited)

Donald Kerr

Drunk in Speakeasy (uncredited)

Hank Mann

Argumentative Husband in Speakeasy (uncredited)

Harry 'Snub' Pollard

Waiter (uncredited)

Mort Marshall

Cootie Jacobs

Moe Schneider

Trombonist (Big 7)

George Van Eps

Guitarist (Big 7)

Ray Sherman

Pianist (Big 7)

Dick Cathcart

Trumpet Player / Webb's Cornet Double

Matty Matlock

Clarinetist (Big 7)

Eddie Miller

Saxophonist (Big 7)

Nick Fatool

Drummer (Big 7)

Jud De Naut

Bassist (Big 7)

Nesdon Booth

Squat Henchman (uncredited)

Perry Botkin Sr.

Tuxedo Band Member (uncredited)

Teddy Buckner

Cornet Soloist (uncredited)

Jester Hairston

Mourner (uncredited)

Joe Venuti

Tuxedo Band Member (uncredited)

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