Pete Kelly's Blues
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Movie Reviews of Pete Kelly's Blues
Movie Review: A 50s favorite!
Summary: 5 Stars
Saw it new as a child, loved it for some strange reason - music, acting, Peggy Lee, Ella, Andy Devine, Lee Marvin, Jack Webb's crewcut? I dunno, but I've seen it a dozen times in my life and still treasure it as one of my all-time 50s favorites!Movie Review: very good
Summary: 5 Stars
although a B movie peggy lee and ella are WOW and the music great plus the little bit of a young jayne mansfield really brings this flic up several notches, it was great to see it again after all these yearsMovie Review: Pete Kelly's Blues
Summary: 5 Stars
It is great to finally get a copy of this flawed but very special film. The music score is great. I never thought I would get to see this film again, so I am grateful for it's release and to AmazonMovie Review: Fair story, great jazz score
Summary: 4 Stars
Not that great a movie, though it's saved by a terrific soundtrack. Jack Webb plays Kelly, a 1920s cornet player in Kansas City who runs into trouble with a gangster who demands "protection." He goes along with it for a while, but then decides to stand up for himself and comes out a winner (no surprise there). Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, and an excellent jazz combo add immeasurably to what's lacking in the story. Dick Cathcart did the trumpet dubs. Another plus is the wisecracking script - there are more sarcasms and smart-alecky quips per frame than just about anyplace else in moviedom, and most are real zingers. On the negative side, Webb is as stiff as a board (a style all his: think DRAGNET, only here he's even stiffer) and the shootout at the empty nightclub is on the far side of reality. Fun to watch, though.
Movie Review: C'mon Warners, GIVE!
Summary: 4 Stars
Given that this has already been remastered in letterbox/stereo for Laserdisc, why isn't this available on DVD? Webb loved 20s jazz and that is reflected in the terrific soundtrack and meticulous attention to period detail in every frame (wonderful Cinemascope production design!). Ella sings as only she can and acts as only she couldn't; Peggy Lee's heartbreaking performance as a torch singer on the skids was rightfully nominated for an Oscar (and oh yeah - "she sings"). This was one of the ten top-grossers of 1955, just behind "East of Eden," and its not available ten years into the DVD era?!