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  1. Pete Kelly's Blues is a 1955 musical crime film based on the 1951 radio series of the same name. It was directed by and starred Jack Webb in the title role of a bandleader and musician. Janet Leigh is featured as party girl Ivy Conrad, and Edmond O'Brien as a gangster who applies pressure to Kelly.

  2. Pete Kelly's Blues: Directed by Jack Webb. With Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien, Peggy Lee. 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.

    • (1.5K)
    • Crime, Drama, Music
    • Jack Webb
    • 1955-07-31
  3. Brief Synopsis. The jazz band's leader gets mixed up with gangster in '20s Kansas City.

  4. Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #PeteKellysBlues A bootlegger (Edmond O'Brien) strong-arms a jazz cornetist (Jack Webb) and his combo at a 1920s Kansas City speakeasy...

    • 4 min
    • 16.4K
    • Warner Bros. Classics
  5. A bootlegger (Edmond O'Brien) strong-arms a jazz cornetist (Jack Webb) and his combo at a 1920s Kansas City speakeasy.

    • (5)
    • Jack Webb
    • Jack Webb
    • Musical
  6. 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. Jack Webb. Director. Richard L. Breen.

  7. Known for the stiffness of his Dragnet character, Webb lets loose quite a bit here as Pete Kelly, a cornet player and band leader who’s forced to pay protection to gangster Fran McCarg (a fantastically cynical Edmund O’Brien) in a milieu of speakeasies, secret upstairs rooms, and back alleys.