This clip is to augment an educational essay on the film at. The phenix city story 1955 0814 1955 us crime, drama 1h 40m user score. One response to phenix city story, the 1955 david csontos, on february 11th, 2008 at 8. The phenix city story john mcintire richard kiley kathryn grant 1955 the son richard kiley of an illfated anticrime crusader john mcintire tries to clean up his notorious alabama hometown. Equal opportunity employer the city of phenix city is an equal opportunity employer committed to equal access treatment of all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other factor that does. The phenix city story 1955 official trailer, organic. A june 1955 memo in the file indicates that after shooting on the phenix city story was completed, the pca requested a number of cuts before it could be approved. With john mcintire, richard kiley, kathryn grant, edward andrews. Patterson john mcintire, who hopes to win the an attorney generals job in alabama. Director phil karlson genres crime, drama, filmnoir rating 7. Based on a true story and featuring some of the actually people involved, this grim, violent crime drama is set in the title alabama city that was in 1954 a modernday sodom and gomorrah of. Based on actual events, the phenix city story tells the tale of a wideopen sin city in alabama across a bridge from columbus, ga, and just a stones throw from the ft. Introduced by witnesses to the true story dramatized, a city of gambling and vice run by smalltown gangsters is challenged by a father and son who are lawyers and by some conscientious citizens. He plans to start practicing law with his father, albert john mcintire, but johns wife lenka peterson is reluctant to live in phenix city because of the large number of casinos and brothels in the town that are controlled by a local crime syndicate.
The phenix city story 1955 08141955 us crime, drama 1h 40m user score. Phenix city je grad u americkoj saveznoj drzavi alabama, smjesten u okruzima russell i lee, odnosno administrativno sjediste okruga russell. The city, just across the bridge from georgias fort benning, has been at the mercy of mob rule for a hundred years. The phenix city story 1955 film complet en francais a 20170816t23. Abouttobe crusading alabama crime fighter john patterson richard kiley, until recently an army officer and prosecutor, comes looking for thug clem john larch, crime boss tanner edward andrews and henchgirl cassie jean carson looking on, in the phenix city. The phenix city story is a 1955 american film noir crime film directed by phil karlson for allied artists, written by daniel mainwaring and crane wilbur and starring john mcintire, richard kiley and kathryn grant. Pssst, want to check out the phenix city story in our new look. Tcm saturday matinee the phenix city story intro youtube. Jun 08, 2015 this post was originally written as part of my usa road trip series over at french toast sunday.
Phenix city hardcover january 1, 1955 by edwin strickland author, gene wortsman author 4. A crimebusting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small southern town. The phenix city story phil karlsons raw 1955 film noir is based on the reallife story of phenix city, alabamaa viceridden small town scrubbed down by a crusading lawyer. Although the picture received an mpaa certificate on july 20, 1955, many of the details to which the pca objected, such as the childs murder and men standing in line at a brothel.
Meet the cast and learn more about the stars of the phenix city story with. The phenix city story 1955 directed by phil karlson. The first book written about the phenix city story. Autoplay when autoplay is enabled, a suggested video will. The tragedy and the triumph of phenix city, alabama. Based on a sensational news story, this film looks at the murder of albert l. Pattersons murder followed in the wake of his efforts to clean up the small city on the alabamageorgia state line. The phenix city story is a crime drama based on the real life events surrounding the 1954 assassination of albert patterson a candidate for attorney general who challenged the.
Production mostly hews to provable incident, with some coloring or rearrangement for dramatic emphasis. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing the phenix city story near you. In this semidocumentary, an alabama town is run by a crime syndicate thats grown fat on prostitution and crooked gambling, directed at. Clete roberts reports the news about phenix city and its criminal syndicate. One of the most violent and realistic crime films of the 1950s, the phenix city story pulses with the bracing energy of actual life captured on the screen in its establishing shots and key scenes, and punctuates that background with explosively filmed action scenes. I read a couple that said they bought the disc just to watch the phenix city story and got kind of hung up on wanting to see it. Director phil karlson showed just how good he was at merging welltold screen drama with vivid verisimilitude, and leaving no. The town officials all turn a blind eye due to either. When life is unfair, my reaction tends to be one of anxiety, or maybe sadness. The phenix city story film by karlson 1955 britannica. Aug 16, 2017 the phenix city story 1955 film complet en francais a 20170816t23. The phenix city story is a 1955 film that i happened to come across while looking for a birthday present for a classic movie lover.
The phenix city story phil karlsons noirish 1955 docudrama about organized crime is authentically seedy, shot in alabama with adept use of many locals and an unusual candor about racist violence. Download the tv guide app for iphone, ipad and android. The horrific assassination attracted national and international attention in the london times and the new york. Poznat je kao popriste posljednje vece bitke u gradanskom ratu, ali i kao zloglasno uporiste. The phenix city story is a 1955 american film noir crime film directed by phil karlson for allied. Marilyn ferdinand ferdy and farran nehme the siren are in cahoots with the film noir foundation in trying to raise money for the restoration of classic, essential film noir that are rapidly becoming lost due to. Ray jenkins, one of the two reporters who covered the phenix city story for the columbus. The phenix city story 1955 movie posters cinematerial. John mcintire, richard kiley, kathryn grant, edward andrews, james edwards, lenka peterson. The horrific assassination attracted national and international attention in the london times and the new york times, as. Gallery of 12 movie poster and cover images for the phenix city story 1955.
Jan 15, 2016 a crusading lawyer takes on the corrupt machine running a southern town. Based on a true story and featuring some of the actually people involved, this grim, violent crime drama is set in the title alabama city that was in 1954 a. The phenix city story vice, southern style, gets the expose treatment in phenix city story. The phenix city story phil karlson, 1955 there is something vital going on over at ferdy on films and the selfstyled siren. Tcm saturday matinee the phenix city story outro duration. The biggest problem i had with the phenix city story was the opening 15 minutes of manonthestreet interview footage with the actual people who lived through the story. A 1955 article about phenix city reported that 20 percent of the citys general fund was made up of income from licenses, fines, and forfeitures.
Based on a true story, but departing from the truth in some places, the phenix city story tells of phenix city, alabama, where gambling and organized crime run the city. Benning, georgia so soldiers were always crossing the bridge to gamble and find women. The phenix city story 1955 resynced and corrected watch online download subtitles searcher. The phenix city story 1955 the movie database tmdb.
The phenix city story 1955 watch online download subtitles searcher. The phenix city story john pattersons speech duration. In looking back, writer andreas stoehr highlights movies from the underexplored grottos of film history. The phenix city story 1955 is a crime, drama movie starring john mcintire and richard kiley.
This is the brutal dummydeath sequence from phil karlsons masterful film noir, the phenix city story 1955. The fall and rise of phenix city malefactors register. The phenix city story 1955 phil karlson, john mcintire, richard. Other articles where the phenix city story is discussed. A crusading lawyer takes on the corrupt machine running a southern town. Benning army base where gambling, prostitution, and any number of other vices were tolerated openly by the law, most of it centered on the main downtown drag, 14th street, thanks to the 50year influence of organized crime. The crime history in phenix city, alabama isnt limited to the 50s era of sin city. Phenix city is a dangerous place to run for election without the backing of local gangsters, but urged on by his exmilitary son, john richard kiley, albert promises to restore law and order to the crimeridden city. It had an unusual triple premiere held on july 19, 1955 in phenix city, alabama, columbus, georgia and chicago, illinois nb. But watching phil karlsons the phenix city story 1955 just pisses me off. In 1954 gamblers and organized crime that controlled phenix city, alabama, arranged for the assassination of alabama attorney generalelect albert patterson.
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