CHICAGO JOE AND THE SHOWGIRL is based on a true story, "the Cleft Chin Murder," which dominated British headlines for a time in 1944. A teenaged showgirl, Georgina Grayson (Emily Lloyd), meets an American serviceman, Ricky Allen (Kiefer Sutherland), and the two embark on a wild affair.
Movie-mad Georgina envisions herself as a glamorous gun moll to Ricky's imagined mobster kingpin. She goads him to commit one crime after another for her. The fun of appropriating an Army truck and stealing a fur coat escalates nightmarishly into the murders of a lady hitchhiker (Alexandra Pigg)
and a cabbie (John Junkin). The pair are found out and tried. The lovers come to discover...
Released:
1990
Rated:
R
Length:
103 mins