The Girl from Chicago

1932 film

1932 (1932)

Running time

70 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglish

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.^[1]

Cast

Grace Smith
Carl Mahon
Eunice Brooks
Starr Calloway
Edwin Cary
Dorothy Van Engle
Alice B. Russell

Preservation status

The film is preserved with a copy held in the Library of Congress collection.^[2]

Home media

On May 26, 2009, a Region 0 DVD of the movie was released by Alpha Video.^[3]

References

^ The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993: The Girl from Chicago
^ 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.
^ The Girl From Chicago DVD info, oldies.com; accessed July 28, 2015.