Chicago Confidential

1957 film by Sidney Salkow

August 30, 1957 (1957-08-30)

Running time

73 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

Chicago Confidential is a 1957 American crime film noir directed by Sidney Salkow and starring Brian Keith, Beverly Garland and Dick Foran. It is based on the 1950 book Chicago: Confidential! by Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer.^[1]

Chicago Confidential was the first film produced for Edward Small by Robert E. Kent, who had been a writer and story supervisor at Columbia. Small and Kent went on to make many movies together.^[2]

Plot

A union official named Blane is framed for the murder of another union official. The crime syndicate actually responsible for the killing is free to continue its activities. District Attorney Jim Fremont's plan to run for governor can be helped by a conviction of Blane, but thanks to Blane's fiancée Laura Barton he begins to suspect that Blane has been set up, launching a new investigation.

Laura testifies in court that Blane was with her at the time of the murder, and a neighbor, Sylvia Clarkson, swears she heard Blane's voice coming from Laura's apartment. Jim discovers a tape recording that suggests Clarkson might have been fooled, but Laura convinces him otherwise. Clarkson turns out to be conspiring with the criminals.

Racketeers, led by Ken Harrison, knock Jim cold and take Laura hostage. Harrison intends to flee by airplane. Jim and his men surround the plane at the air strip and a gun battle ensues, Harrison is shot. Jim's political future is now set, while Blane is released so that he can marry Laura.

Cast

Brian Keith as District Attorney Jim Fremont
Beverly Garland as Laura Barton
Dick Foran as Arthur "Artie" Blane
Douglas Kennedy as Ken Harrison
Paul Langton as Police Capt. Jake Parker
Elisha Cook, Jr. as Candymouth Duggan
Gavin Gordon as Alan Dixon
Beverly Tyler as Sylvia Clarkson
Buddy Lewis as Kerry Jordan
Anthony George as Duncan

References

^ Article on film at Turner Classic Movies accessed 19 May 2013
^ Scheuer, Philip K. (Nov 1, 1956). "Warners Buys No. 1 Seller, 'Nun's Story'; Satire Will Be Staged". Los Angeles Times. p. C15.

External links

Chicago Confidential at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
Chicago Confidential at IMDb
Chicago Confidential at AllMovie
Chicago Confidential at the TCM Movie Database

Films directed by Sidney Salkow

Four Days' Wonder (1936)
Girl Overboard (1937)
That's My Story (1937)
Behind the Mike (1937)
The Night Hawk (1938)
Storm Over Bengal (1938)
Fighting Thoroughbreds (1939)
She Married a Cop (1939)
Flight at Midnight (1939)
Street of Missing Men (1939)
Woman Doctor (1939)
The Zero Hour (1939)
Cafe Hostess (1940)
Girl from God's Country (1940)
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date (1940)
The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady (1940)
The Lone Wolf Strikes (1940)
The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance (1941)
Tillie the Toiler (1941)
Time Out for Rhythm (1941)
The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942)
Flight Lieutenant (1942)
City Without Men (1943)
The Boy from Stalingrad (1943)
Faithful in My Fashion (1946)
Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1947)
Millie's Daughter (1947)
Sword of the Avenger (1948)
Shadow of the Eagle (1950)
Fugitive Lady (1951)
The Golden Hawk (1952)
Scarlet Angel (1952)
The Pathfinder (1952)
Prince of Pirates (1953)
Raiders of the Seven Seas (1953)
Jack McCall, Desperado (1953)
Sitting Bull (1954)
Las Vegas Shakedown (1955)
Robbers' Roost (1955)
Toughest Man Alive (1955)
Gun Brothers (1956)
Chicago Confidential (1957)
Gun Duel in Durango (1957)
The Iron Sheriff (1957)
The Big Night (1960)
Twice-Told Tales (1963)
Blood on the Arrow (1964)
The Quick Gun (1964)
The Last Man on Earth (1964)
The Great Sioux Massacre (1965)
The Murder Game (1965)

v t e Films produced by Edward Small
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1930s	Clancy in Wall Street (1930) Igloo (1932) I Cover the Waterfront (1933) Palooka (1933) The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934) Let 'Em Have It (1935) Red Salute (1935) The Melody Lingers On (1935) The Last of the Mohicans (1936) The Bride Walks Out (1936) We Who Are About to Die (1937) Sea Devils (1937) New Faces of 1937 (1937) Super-Sleuth (1937) The Toast of New York (1937) The Duke of West Point (1938) King of the Turf (1939) The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
1940s	My Son, My Son! (1940) The Son of Monte Cristo (1940) South of Pago Pago (1940) Kit Carson (1940) International Lady (1941) The Corsican Brothers (1941) A Gentleman After Dark (1942) Twin Beds (1942) Miss Annie Rooney (1942) Friendly Enemies (1942) Up in Mabel's Room (1944) Abroad with Two Yanks (1944) Brewster's Millions (1945) Getting Gertie's Garter (1945) Temptation (1946) The Return of Monte Cristo (1946) T-Men (1947) The Black Arrow (1948) The Fuller Brush Man (1948) Raw Deal (1948) Walk a Crooked Mile (1948) Black Magic (1949)
1950s	Davy Crockett, Indian Scout (1950) The Iroquois Trail (1950) Valentino (1951) Lorna Doone (1951) The Texas Rangers (1951) Indian Uprising (1952) Scandal Sheet (1952) The Brigand (1952) Cripple Creek (1952) Kansas City Confidential (1952) The Bandits of Corsica (1953) Captain John Smith and Pocahontas (1953) Dragon's Gold (1953) Gun Belt (1953) The Neanderthal Man (1953) 99 River Street (1953) Raiders of the Seven Seas (1953) Sabre Jet (1953) The Steel Lady (1953) Wicked Woman (1953) Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl (1954) Khyber Patrol (1954) The Lone Gun (1954) Overland Pacific (1954) Return to Treasure Island (1954) Southwest Passage (1954) Down Three Dark Streets (1954) New York Confidential (1955) The Naked Street (1955) Top Gun (1955) Comanche (1955) Gun Brothers (1956) UFO (1956) Chicago Confidential (1957) 5 Steps to Danger (1957) Gun Duel in Durango (1957) The Iron Sheriff (1957) Monkey on My Back (1957) Curse of the Faceless Man (1958) Hong Kong Confidential (1958) It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958) Toughest Gun in Tombstone (1958) Witness for the Prosecution (1958) The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959) Guns, Girls and Gangsters (1959) Inside the Mafia (1959) Invisible Invaders (1959) Pier 5, Havana (1959) Riot in Juvenile Prison (1959) Solomon and Sheba (1959) Timbuktu (1959) (had name removed from credits) Vice Raid (1959)
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