Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Frank Urson Director
- Phyllis Haver as Roxie Hart
- Victor Varconi as Amos Hart
- Virginia Bradford as Katie
- Robert Edeson as William Flynn
- Eugene Pallette as Rodney Casley
- Warner Richmond as Asst. District Attorney
- T. Roy Barnes as Reporter
- Clarence Burton as Police sergeant
- Julia Faye as Velma
- May Robson as Mrs. Morton - Matron
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