Based on real events, The Phenix City Story follows Alabama Attorney General Albert Patterson (John McIntire) as he takes on a city saturated with vice and organized crime. In Dial 1119, an escaped mental patient (Marshall Thompson) holds hostages at gunpoint in a bar. Phil Karlson and Gerald Mayer direct these tense noir dramas, which star Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant, Virginia Field, Sam Levene and Richard Rober.