When desire has no limits... Fantasies become dangerous realities!
Run Time
103 min
Genre
Crime, Drama, Romance, War
Language
English
Keyword
American Abroad, Robbery, Slow Motion Scene, Cab Driver, London England
Movie Rating
Sound Mix
Dolby
Colour
Color
Film Type
Feature
Film Class
Crime Thriller
Themes
Lovers on the Lam, Crime Sprees
Tones
Ominous, Atmospheric, Tense
Has Detailed Data (New)
1, 2, 3
Wikipedia Text
Chicago Joe and the Showgirl is a 1990 British crime drama film directed by Bernard Rose and written by David Yallop. Director Bernard Rose and screenwriter David Yallop were inspired by the real-life Hulten/Jones murder case of 1944, famously known as The Cleft Chin Murder Case, after a London cabbie was found murdered. It was a sensation in England, where American soldier Karl Hulten and British showgirl Elizabeth Maud Jones became household names—even beating out news of the war. In the film, Karl Hulten (Kiefer Sutherland), is an American GI who is stalking the black market of London after stealing an army truck and going AWOL. There he meets up with Betty Jones (Emily Lloyd), a stripper with a deluded fantasy world view formed by watching a steady stream of Hollywood film noir and gangster pictures. Seeing Karl, who claims he is Chicago Joe doing advance work in London for encroaching Chicago gangsters, Betty takes the opportunity to set her fantasies to life as she connives Karl into a crime spree of petty crimes. With luck on their side, the spree keeps escalating, until Betty urges Karl to commit the ultimate crime—murder.
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