Chicago (1927)

Release Date: 1927-12-23
Runtime: 1h 43min
Production Company: DeMille Pictures Corporation
Production Country: United States of America
Director: Frank Urson
Writer: Lenore J. Coffee

Based on a true story, two-timing boozing wife Roxie Hart kills her lover in cold blood after he leaves her, and finagles her way out being indicted. The basis for Kander/Ebb's 1975 Broadway musical of the same name and its Oscar-winning 2002 film adaptation.