Chicago
(1927) American
B&W : Nine reels / 9145 feet
Directed by Frank Urson
Cast: Phyllis Haver [Roxie Hart], Victor Varconi [Amos Hart], Eugene Pallette [Casley], Virginia Bradford [Katie], Clarence Burton [police sergeant], Warner Richmond [district attorney], T. Roy Barnes [reporter], Sidney D’Albrook [photographer], Otto Lederer [Amo’s partner], May Robson [matron], Julia Faye [Velma Kelly], Robert Edeson [Billy Flynn]
DeMille Pictures Corporation production; distributed by Pathé Exchange, Incorporated. / Scenario by Lenore J. Coffee, from the adaptation by Lenore J. Coffee of the play Chicago by Maurine Watkins. Production manager, E.O. Gurney. Art direction by Mitchell Leisen. Costume design by Adrian (Gilbert Adrian). Assistant director, Roy Burns. Cinematography by Peverell Marley. Intertitles by John Krafft. Edited by Anne Bauchens. / © 6 February 1928 by DeMille Pictures Corporation [LP24955]. Premiered 23 December 1927 in New York, New York. General release, 4 March 1929. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. / Silent film.
Drama.
Synopsis: Synopsis available in AFI-F2 n. F2.0854.
Survival Status: Prints exist in the UCLA Film and Television Archive film archive [35mm preservation negative, 35mm preservation positive].
Keywords: Crime: Murder, Theft - Death: Murder - Infidelity - Legal: Attorneys, Lawyers, Trials - Maids - Telephones - Tobacco: Cigars, Tobacco shops - USA: Illinois: Chicago
Listing updated: 20 September 2008.
References: AFI-F2 n. F2.0854; Everson-American p. 206; Vermilye-Twenties p. 24 : Website-AFI.
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