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Synopsis
The Phenix City Story is a 1955 American crime film noir directed by Phil Karlson for Allied Artists, written by Daniel Mainwaring and Crane Wilbur and starring John McIntire, Richard Kiley, and Kathryn Grant. It dramatizes the 1954 assassination of attorney and politician Albert Patterson in Phenix City, Alabama, and the subsequent declaration of martial law. Although the film presents Albert Patterson's son, John Patterson, as a reform figure opposing corruption, his later political career complicates this image; as governor of Alabama (1959–1963), Patterson was a staunch supporter of segregation and ran on a campaign heavily supported by the Ku Klux Klan. During his tenure as governor, John Patterson fought against desegregation, particularly in schools, and clashed with the John F. Kennedy administration over the handling of Freedom Riders.
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Poster by Distributed by Allied Artists Pictures . (Public domain).
Credits
- Producer
- Samuel Bischoff
- Director
- Phil Karlson
- Screenplay
- Daniel Mainwaring, Crane Wilbur
- Director of Photography
- Harry Neumann
- Original Music Composer
- Harry Sukman
- Country
- United States
- Studios
- Monogram Pictures
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