Pete Kelly's Blues (1955 Jack Webb & prod)

We're back in the Jazz Age, 1927.. but who's Jack Webb, who also stars? Well he was not a horn player, though was a big jazz lover, and is best known for the hit TV series Dragnet and Emergency!

This is essentially a crime thriller with musical numbers featuring a cool seven piece band and turns by Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee as an alcoholic singer. Janet Leigh is the love interest, Lee Marvin his faithful clarinet player, Andy Devine a copper and Edmond O'Brien the bastard crime boss. So, not uninteresting cast and story (Richard Breen), shot in CinemaScope by Hal Rosson, uncredited music by Ray Heindorf and David Buttolph.

It didn't turn out how I expected.