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The Phenix City Story (1955)
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14 August 1955 (USA)
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ALABAMA'S CITY OF SIN AND SHAME! (original print ad - all caps) more
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In this semidocumentary, an Alabama town is run by a crime syndicate that's grown fat on prostitution and crooked gambling...
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | John McIntire | ... | Albert Patterson |
| Richard Kiley | ... | John Patterson |
| Kathryn Grant | ... | Ellie Rhodes |
| Edward Andrews | ... | Rhett Tanner |
| Lenka Peterson | ... | Mary Jo Patterson |
| Biff McGuire | ... | Fred Gage |
| Truman Smith | ... | Ed Gage |
| Jean Carson | ... | Cassie |
| Kathy Marlowe | ... | Mamie (as Katharine Marlowe) |
| John Larch | ... | Clem Wilson |
| Allen Nourse | ... | Jeb Bassett |
| James Edwards | ... | Zeke Ward |
| Helen Martin | ... | Helen Ward |
 | Otto Hulett | ... | Hugh Bentley |
| George Mitchell | ... | Hugh Britton |
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100 min | USA:87 min (without prologue)
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This is one of Martin Scorsese's personal favorite films.
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Featured in A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995) (TV)
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Phenix City Blues
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Whether your a fan of Noir or not, The Phenix City Story remains superior filmaking on all levels regardless of it's budget and lack of special effects. While some may laugh at substituting a doll briefly for a dead child; it's follow up scene continues to have as much shocking impact today as it did upon it's release. To say this is textbook noir filmaking is too small as by all standards The Phenix City Story is the barometer by which crime, realism, fistfights and expose cinema is measured up to.