It’s an intelligent, briskly moving crime story in the noir style, featuring a notably strong turn by John Payne portraying "Joe," a man who used to be in the military and had run afoul of the law, and finds himself wrongly accused of a large-scale armed heist while he's making flower deliveries. The authorities are unable to formally charge him because the perpetrators concealed their faces, so he opts to pursue tho…

Phil Karlson directed and George Bruce and Harry Essex wrote Kansas City Confidential (also known as The Secret Four), a film featuring John Payne, Preston Foster, Coleen Gray, Neville Brand, Jack Elam, and Lee Van Cleef. Paul Sawtell composed the music, and George E. Diskant was in charge of cinematography. The story centers on four robbers who steal over a million dollars from an armored truck. Joe Rolfe (Payne), a…