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. This film is a remake of the now-lost 1926 Oscar Michaeux silent film The Spider’s Web.
Produced on a shoestring budget, this independent production featured a largely non-professional cast. As it is common in Micheaux's films, the story line is punctuated 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. The AFI Catalog of Feature Films 1893-1993: The Girl from Chicago
Cast Carl Mahon - Alonzo White Grace Smith - Liza Hatfield Juano Hernández - Gomez Eunice Brooks - Mary Austin Starr Calloway - Norma Shepard (as Star Calloway) Alice B. Russell - Miss Warren Minto Cato - Mary's sister John Everett - Jeff Ballinger Frank H. Wilson - Wade Washington Edwin Cary - A numbers collector Cherokee Thornton - A "Snitch"
Preservation status The film is preserved with a copy held in the Library of Congress collection.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.
Home media On May 26, 2009, a Region 0 DVD of the movie was released by Alpha Video.The Girl From Chicago DVD info, oldies.com; accessed July 28, 2015.
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The Girl from Chicago available for free download from Internet Archive