Kansas City Confidential (1952) | FILM NOIR/CRIME | FULL MOVIE

In Kansas City, a mastermind who the others will eventually coin "Mr. Big" has assembled a team of three others to pull off a bank heist, their total take $1.2 million. Mr. Big gave them no real option but to accept his offer to be part of the team, a cool $300,000 apiece. Only Mr. Big knows the identities of the three, they in turn not knowing his or the others' identities in that Mr. Big has mandated that they all wear a mask in any of their interactions, including during the heist and the planned loot split later. The police apprehend a surprised flower delivery driver, Joe, due to the circumstantial evidence that Joe one of the four perpetrators. While the police are eventually forced to release Joe when they find the actual robbery vehicle, the damage has already been done to his reputation and this his ability to earn a living. As such, Joe is determined to find the four and bring them to justice. While he has the problem as do the three hired hands of not being able to identify them even if he is able to locate them, Mr. Big has the upper hand in that he can identify them all and that he has an end goal about which the others are unaware which dictates his actions. Someone close to Mr. Big, an unsuspecting bystander, becomes unwittingly involved in the situation, which makes Joe's task even more complicated.

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