Roxie Hart

Tookey's Rating
	6 /10

Average Rating
	6.29 /10

Starring
Ginger Rogers , George Kennedy, Adolphe Menjou
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Directed by: William Wellman
Written by: Nunnally Johnson from play Chicago by Maurine Watkins

Released:	1942

Genre:	UNDERRATED BLACK COMEDY REMAKE COMEDY

Origin:	US

Colour:	BW

Length:	72

A woman with showbiz ambitions (Ginger Rogers, pictured) confesses to murder in the hope tthat her notoriety will help make her a star.

Reviewed by Chris Tookey

A hard-bitten, cynical satire on the American penal system, showbiz, lawyers and the tabloid press. Ginger Rogers is fine as the frustrated cabaret artiste , but Adolphe Menjou (as her opportunisttic lawyer) is even funnier. Wellman directs with pace and style. Though set in the roaring 20s, much of the humour remains surprisingly topical. Itself a remake of a 1927 film, Chicago, it was later turned into the Musical of the same name.

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