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Chicago Joe and the Showgirl 
Theatrical release posterDirected by Bernard Rose Produced by Tim Bevan Written by David Yallop Starring Kiefer Sutherland
Emily LloydMusic by Hans Zimmer Cinematography Mike Southon Editing by Carlos Puente Studio LIVE Entertainment
PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Working Title FilmsDistributed by New Line Cinema Release date(s) July 27, 1990 Running time 103 min. Country 
United KingdomLanguage English Box office $85,395 (US) [1] Chicago Joe and the Showgirl is a 1990 British crime drama film directed by Bernard Rose and written by David Yallop. The film was inspired by the real-life Hulten/Jones murder case of 1944, famously known as the Cleft Chin Murder.
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Plot
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.
Cast
- John Lahr ... Radio commentator
- Emily Lloyd ... Betty Jones
- Liz Fraser ... Mrs. Evans
- Kiefer Sutherland ... Karl Hulten
- Harry Fowler ... Morry
- Keith Allen ... Lenny Bexley
- Patsy Kensit ... Joyce Cook
- Angela Morant ... Customer
- John Surman ... Mr. Cook
- Janet Dale ... Mrs. Cook
- John Dair ... John
- Stephen Hancock ... Doctor
- Hugh Millais ... U.S. colonel
- Harry Jones ... Taxi driver
- Alexandra Pigg ... Violet
- John Junkin ... George Heath
- Gerard Horan ... John Wilkins
- Colin Bruce ... Robert De Mott
- Ralph Nossek ... Insp. Tansill
- Roger Ashton-Griffiths ... Insp. Tarr
- Richard Ireson ... Reporter #1
- Malcolm Terris ... Reporter #2
- Gary Parker ... Reporter #3
- Karen Gledhill ... Reporter #4
- Niven Boyd ... Reporter #5
References
- ^ "Chicago Joe and the Showgirl (1990)". Box Office Mojo. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=chicagojoeandtheshowgirl.htm. Retrieved 7 August 2011.
External links
- Chicago Joe and the Showgirl at the Internet Movie Database
- Chicago Joe and the Showgirl at AllRovi
- Chicago Joe and the Showgirl at Rotten Tomatoes
Films directed by Bernard Rose 1980s 1990s Chicago Joe and the Showgirl (1990) · Candyman (1992) · Immortal Beloved (1994) · Anna Karenina (1997)2000s 2010s Mr. Nice (2010) · Two Jacks (2011)Categories:- 1990 films
- New Line Cinema films
- Hood films
- Working Title Films films
- 1990s crime films
- Films set in the 1940s
- World War II films
- Neo-noir
- Gang films
- Crime thriller films
- English-language films
- British films
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