The Phenix City Story (1955)

Directors

Phil Karlson

Cast

John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant, Edward Andrews, Lenka Peterson, Biff McGuire, Truman Smith, Jean Carson, Kathy Marlowe, John Larch, Allen Nourse, James Edwards, Helen Martin, Otto Hulett, George Mitchell, Ma Beachie, James E. Seymour

The story

The film opens in the Poppy Club, a nightclub in Phenix City, a corrupt Alabama town near the Army's Fort Benning, where singer Meg Myles performs “Phenix City Blues” as soldiers drink and gamble. The club, managed by mob moll Cassie and controlled by crime boss Rhett Tanner, serves as a center of the city’s illicit economy. Local law can do little to stop the criminal activities of Rhett Tanner, particularly in the wide-open "red-light district" area known for prostitution, taverns, and crooked gambling.

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