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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.
The Phenix City Story: Directed by Phil Karlson. With John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant, Edward Andrews. A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.
In the early 1950s, Phenix City, Alabama is known as "Sin City, U.S.A." for its nearly 100-year history of supplying gambling and other vices to tourists and the soldiers of nearby Fort Benning, Georgia. Rhett Tanner, the head of the city's organized crime syndicate, deals viciously with any honest citizens who try to stop his "industry's" ...
Mar 19, 2024 · The Phenix City Story is a crime film based on the assassination of Alabama politician and attorney Albert Patterson in June 1954 in Phenix City, Russell County.
In the 1940s and 1950s in Alabama, the notorious Phenix City is a town ruled by the organized crime and prostitution and gambling are the main economical activities. The police department is corrupt and the criminal Rhett Tanner is the big boss.
Phenix City is a dangerous place to run for election without the backing of local gangsters, but urged on by his ex-military son, John (Richard Kiley), Albert promises to restore law and order...
Phenix City, Alabama, was called “the wickedest city in America,” notorious for the gambling and prostitution rackets owned by its crime syndicate, and Karlson’s film dramatizes the real story of lawyer and DA candidate Al Patterson (John McIntire) and his son John (Richard Kiley), a military attorney recently returned from Germany, as ...
