Chicago [videorecording] / Film Preservation Associates, Inc. ; a Cecil B. DeMille Studio production ; directors, Frank Urson, Cecil B. DeMille (uncredited) ; screenwriter, Lenore J. Coffee.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Deluxe ed.
Publisher:
Flicker Alley,
Copyright Date:
c2010
Description:
2 videodiscs (ca. 213 min.) : sd., b&w and tinted ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (15 p. : ill. ;19 cm.).
Silent film with English intertitles and musical score. Phyllis Haver, Victor Varconi, Virginia Bradford, Robert Edeson, Eugene Palette. Based on the stage play by Maurine Watkins. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1927.
Contents:
disc 1. [Feature] (119 min.) -- disc 2. The golden twenties / produced by the March of Time ; producer, Richard de Rochemont ; writers, Frederick Lewis Allen, Samuel Wood Bryant (1950) (64 min.) ; The flapper story / producer/writer/director, Lauren Lazin (1985) (30 min.).
Summary:
The story of jazz-loving flapper Roxie Hart, put on trial for the murder of her lover, who hits the headlines with her courtroom theatrics.
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