The Girl from Chicago

{{short description|1932 film}}

{{For|the 1927 silent film directed by Ray Enright|The Girl from Chicago (1927 film)}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = The Girl from Chicago

| image = The Girl from Chicago Poster.jpg

| caption = Film poster

| director = Oscar Micheaux

| producer = Oscar Micheaux

| writer = Oscar Micheaux

| starring = Grace Smith
Carl Mahon
Eunice Brooks
Starr Calloway
Edwin Cary

| cinematography = Sam Orleans

| editing = Richard Halpenny

| distributor = Micheaux Pictures Corporation

| released = {{Film date|1932}}

| country = United States

| runtime = 70 minutes

| language = English

}}

The Girl from Chicago is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film produced and directed by Oscar Micheaux, with an all-African-American cast including lead actors Grace Smith and Carl Mahon.

Produced on a shoestring budget, this independent production featuring a largely non-professional cast, is known as one of the better-quality Micheaux productions. As it is common in Micheaux's films, the story line is padded with several musical numbers, offering a glimpse of African-American musical and dancing talent of the time.

Plot

A federal agent falls in love while on assignment in Mississippi. He helps his lover escape a local thug, and follows them to Harlem where they become involved in the assassination of a Cuban racketeer.[https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/2245?sid=d38a4b9c-4002-43e3-afe2-e9d4e2f50922&sr=3.1248815&cp=1&pos=0 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993: The Girl from Chicago]

Cast

Preservation status

  • The film is preserved with a copy held in the Library of Congress collection.Catalog of Holding The American Film Institute collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress, (<-book title) p. 68, c.1978 by The American Film Institute.

Home media

On May 26, 2009, a Region 0 DVD of the movie was released by Alpha Video.[http://www.oldies.com/product-view/5813D.html The Girl From Chicago DVD info], oldies.com; accessed July 28, 2015.

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