The Girl from Chicago (1927 film)
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Director Ray Enright Story by Arthur Somers Roche Country USA | Genre Crime, Romance, Drama Screenplay C. Graham Baker Duration Language English Intertitles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date November 19, 1927 Based on short story in Red Book June 1923, Button, Button, by Arthur Somers Roche Writer C. Graham Baker, Arthur Somers Roche (story) Cast Myrna Loy (Mary Carlton), Conrad Nagel (Handsome Joe), Carroll Nye (Bob Carlton), Erville Alderson (Col Carlton), Paul Panzer (Dopey)Similar movies A Midsummer Nights Dream (1935), Phantom of the Opera (1943), The Four Poster (1952), Fireman - Save My Child (1932), Side Show (1931) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Girl from Chicago is a lost 1927 silent film criminal romance drama directed by Ray Enright and starring Myrna Loy and Conrad Nagel. It was produced and distributed by the Warner Bros. The film later had a Vitaphone soundtrack of sound effects and music added.
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The film is one of the earliest starring roles for Loy who at this time, 1927, didn't usually star but was a supporting player. Warners took a chance casting her in a principal part.
Plot
Southern girl Mary Carlton finds out that her brother, Bob Carlton, is going to the electric chair for a crime he says he didn't commit. In order to get her brother exonerated, Mary travels to New York and pretends to be a Chicago gun moll. She wins the love of two gangsters, Handsome Joe and Big Steve Drummond. Joe, it turns out, isn't a gangster at all, but an undercover detective. He attempts to help Mary prove her brother's innocence, and the two of them are caught in a fierce gun battle between the crooks and the cops. They make it through alive (although Drummond gets his due), and Bob is released at the last minute.
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