{"id":17618,"date":"2025-12-01T21:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=17618"},"modified":"2025-12-01T21:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:34:12","slug":"walk-of-fame-movies-kansas-city-confidential-and-edward-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/01\/walk-of-fame-movies-kansas-city-confidential-and-edward-small\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk of Fame Movies: Kansas City Confidential and Edward Small"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kansas-city-confidential-2.jpg\" alt=\"Mr. Big from Kansas City Confidential\" class=\"wp-image-17622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kansas-city-confidential-2.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kansas-city-confidential-2-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kansas-city-confidential-2-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kansas-city-confidential-1.jpg\" alt=\"Three masked criminals from Kansas City Confidential\" class=\"wp-image-17620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kansas-city-confidential-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kansas-city-confidential-1-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kansas-city-confidential-1-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A fun little caper flick. Does it make sense? No, but everyone in the movie believes it does, and that&#8217;s enough to make it work. Jack Elam is a glorious twitchy rag doll of creepiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/edward-small.jpg\" alt=\"Composite picture. On the left, a mockup of Edward Small's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On the right, a black and white portrait photo of Edward Small.\" class=\"wp-image-17621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/edward-small.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/edward-small-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/edward-small-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Edward Small (1501 Vine Street- I accidentally did this one early)  produced about a billion movies, mostly westerns. There are very few pictures of him online. I guess he was camera shy, but you wouldn&#8217;t guess that from his production company&#8217;s logo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Edward-Small-logo.jpg\" alt=\"The logo for Edward Small Productions. Giant letters &quot;ES&quot; fill more than half the screen. Below them are the words &quot;EDWARD SMALL PRODUCTIONS&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-17623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Edward-Small-logo.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Edward-Small-logo-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">I guess &#8220;Small&#8221; didn&#8217;t refer to how he wrote his initials.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s source poster was pretty obscure, but it looked cool so I went for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kansas-city-confidential-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A fake poster for Kansas City Confidential mimicking the poster for Atlantis: The Lost Continent.\" class=\"wp-image-17619\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kansas-city-confidential-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kansas-city-confidential-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kansas-city-confidential-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kansas-city-confidential.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If anyone calls themself &#8220;Mr. Big,&#8221; don&#8217;t agree to do a job for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63,20,359],"tags":[350,357,78,10,358],"class_list":["post-17618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop","category-watch-of-fame","tag-fake-posters","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-photoshop","tag-walk-of-fame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17624,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17618\/revisions\/17624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}