The Girl from Chicago

1932

Crime / Drama

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 29%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 29%
IMDb Rating 4.5/10 10 245 245

chicago, illinois gangster mobster vaudeville female killer

Plot summary

An undercover government agent on a case in Mississippi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman who's being menaced by a local crime boss.

Director

Oscar Micheaux Photo
Oscar Micheaux

Top cast

Cherokee Thornton Photo
Cherokee Thornton as A Switch
Starr Calloway Photo
Starr Calloway as Norma Shepard
Minto Cato Photo
Minto Cato as Mary's sister
Edwin Cary Photo
Edwin Cary as A numbers collector
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649.27 MB
1280*962
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 10 min
Seeds 1
1.18 GB
1438*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 10 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by boblipton 4 / 10

Good Film Making Requires Money And Skill

Undercover Secret Service agent Carl Mahon goes down to Mississippi on a case, falls in love with Starr Calloway. When that case is completed, they head to Chicago for his next assignment.Like most of Oscar Micheaux' sound films, I find it important but not very good. A great deal of its badness can be laid at the feet of a budget too small to sustain a good movie: no money to rent decent equipment, no money to rent studio space for long enough to manage set-ups, no money to take the time for rewrites and rehearsal. So the leads are awful. In fact, when you hear Frank H. Wilson speak, his naturalism gives you hope. But no one else has it. You may, if you wish, use this reason as an escape for its badness. I fear I don't. I'm afraid that people have to spend some time being bad before they can be good. They have to learn their craft, in this case, the craft of moviemaking.I note that by this time Micheaux was a competent silent film maker. The exterior sequences at the beginning of the movie are well composed. But movie making had moved into the sound era, and Micheaux had to start all over again.
Reviewed by tavm 6 / 10

Oscar Micheaux's The Girl from Chicago is worth a look despite it's obvious amateurishness

Reviewed by psteier 6 / 10

Typical Oscar Micheaux talkie

Carl Mahon (Alonzo White) is a Federal secret agent who goes to Mississippi on a case, meets and falls in love with Star Calliway (Norma Sheperd) and rescues her from the evil local bigshot John Everett (Jeff Balinger). They then go to Harlem and get involved in the murder of the Cuban head of the numbers racket (Vano Hernandez as Gomez).A patchy script and minimal production values can make the movie hard to follow. The sound track is typical of early talkies, with the actors stopping to talk at the camera.Mainly interesting for the music and dance acts, especially the chorus line and the dance duo in a nightclub and as a view of the black acting style of the period.
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