THE ASTOR REVIEW

After 172 successful Broadway shows in 1926, the first film adaptation of Chicago was made by the DeMille Production Company. Attention is directed at the main characters and the story of the infamous murder and trial. The beautiful, blonde Roxie Hart, whose adoring husband is devoted to her, hides a dark double life which is exposed when she shoots her lover and kills him. It is the way in Roxie manipulates her surroundings to her own benefit that is expertly conveyed in this film.

IMDB SYNOPSIS

Based on a true crime story, the movie is about a wild jazz-loving and boozing wife Roxie Hart who kills her boyfriend in cold blood after he leaves her, and how she finagles her way out being convicted. Remade once as a movie, and as a Broadway musical.