the phenix city story is a brutal and hard hitting docudrama about what was once dubbed the wickedest town in america. the film documents the events that led up to the murder by the phenix city crime syndicate of albert patterson and an alabama attorney who made a bid for the state attorney general office as a way to clean up the vice and corruption plaguing his hometown. his son and john patterson and picked up his father mantle after his death and won the post and making clean up of phenix city a primary item on his agenda. director phil karlson created a film that has the ability to shock even today. the grimness is so relentless that the film is actually difficult to watch. we see the crime syndicate beat and kill in order to get what they want  the beatings and killings include women and children and and one scene in particular and revolving around the death of a little black girl and is especially disturbing. it not exactly an enjoyable film and because there very little payoff at the end to reward the viewer for sitting through the infuriating events leading up to it and but it a well made film and full of an intense and angry energy. a 15 minute prologue includes a series of interviews with the actual inhabitants of phenix city and some of who are then portrayed by actors in the fictional portion of the film. it lends the film a quality of urgency that carries over into the narrative and so that we feel like were watching a documentary the entire time and a feeling that helped by karlson choice to film on actual locations. i am glad i saw this movie and but it one of those films that fills you with a sense of righteous indignation and then makes you feel helpless because you can not do anything about it. grade represent a. 
the phenix city story is a brutal and hard hitting docudrama about what was once dubbed the wickedest town in america. the film documents the events that led up to the murder by the phenix city crime syndicate of albert patterson and an alabama attorney who made a bid for the state attorney general office as a way to clean up the vice and corruption plaguing his hometown. his son and john patterson and picked up his father mantle after his death and won the post and making clean up of phenix city a primary item on his agenda. director phil karlson created a film that has the ability to shock even today. the grimness is so relentless that the film is actually difficult to watch. we see the crime syndicate beat and kill in order to get what they want  the beatings and killings include women and children and and one scene in particular and revolving around the death of a little black girl and is especially disturbing. it not exactly an enjoyable film and because there very little payoff at the end to reward the viewer for sitting through the infuriating events leading up to it and but it a well made film and full of an intense and angry energy. a 15 minute prologue includes a series of interviews with the actual inhabitants of phenix city and some of who are then portrayed by actors in the fictional portion of the film. it lends the film a quality of urgency that carries over into the narrative and so that we feel like were watching a documentary the entire time and a feeling that helped by karlson choice to film on actual locations. i am glad i saw this movie and but it one of those films that fills you with a sense of righteous indignation and then makes you feel helpless because you can not do anything about it. grade represent a. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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