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Release Date: Aug 16, 1996
Running Time: 115 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
synopsis
In 1934, while the rest of the country was mired in the Depression, Kansas City thrived with gambling, prostitution, and jazz-filled nightclubs flourishing under the rule of city bosses and organized crime. On the eve of the municipal elections, a scrappy telegraph operator, Blondie O'Hara, has kidnapped wealthy Carolyn Stilton, a drug-addicted socialite wife married to an advisor to president Roosevelt. Blondie plans to swap Carolyn for her small-time gangster husband Johnnie who has been taken hostage by big-time gangster and club owner Seldom Seen. Robert Altman's riff on race, class, and power cross-cuts between the two kidnappings and the background of corrupt politics and virtuoso jazz music.
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Blondie O'Hara
Carolyn Stilton
Seldom Seen
Henry Stilton
Johnny O'Hara
Johnny Flynn
Babe Flynn
Nettie Bolt
Addie Parker
Sheepshan Red
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December 8, 2000
Jazz lovers, rejoice. Robert Altman's hypnotic riff on his hell-raising, whoremongering, crime-ridden Missouri hometown during the Depression is brimming over with vibrant, vital music. Like the young Charlie Parker played by Albert J. Burnes in the movie, Altman used to sneak into the jazz clubs on 18th and Vine to hear the sounds of Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Bennie Moten. The director gathered 21 jazz greats -- veterans and newcomers -- to catch the period spirit. He re-enacts a jam…
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