Chicago history buffs and classic film fans take note! Chicago:The Original 1927 Film has been transferred to disc by Flicker Alley and released in a special two-disc set!
Directed by Chicagoan Frank Urson and produced by Cecil B. DeMille, the silent film was thought to have been lost, but a print was found in DeMille's private collection and was restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive in 2006.
You know the story. Like the 2002 Best Picture musical version, Chicago is based on the 1926 Broadway play by Maurine Watkins. Gold-digging Roxie Hart, played by Phyllis Haver, knocks off her husband Amos (Victor Varconi)and is put on trial for murder. Roxie hires flashy lawyer Billie Flynn (Robert Edeson)and the courtroom hijinks begin in a mix of "humor and melodrama as well as a pungent critique of trash journalism."
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In addition to Chicago, the set also includes:two excellent bonus films: The Golden Twenties (1950), a compilation documentary feature produced by The March of Time from authentic footage of the era; and Oscar-winning Lauren Lazin's The Flapper Story (1985), in which several self-declared children of the roaring twenties look back across the decades on their youthful lives... All three films are produced for DVD by David Shepard. Included are a brochure by Thomas Pauly on author Maurine Watkins and the factual background of Chicago, notes by Robert S. Birchard, author of Cecil B. DeMille s Hollywood, and a special documentary supplement, Chicago; The Real Roxy Hart by Jeffery Masino and Silas Lesnick.
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"He Had it Comin'"
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