Chicago: Cecil B. DeMille's Production of the Original 1927 Film Film Noir Year: 1924-1930

Year: 1924-1930

Chief Chauncey Yellow Robe

sourced from rare archival recordings with images from the Louis de Rochemont Special Collections at Keene State College

an honest cop trapped in a barrel of bad apples

Chicago: Cecil B. DeMille's Production of the Original 1927 Film Film Noir Year: 1924-1930STREAM DIGITAL EDITION PURCHASE M. O. D. BLU RAY EDITION DVD EDITION Like the musical Chicago that won the Best Picture Academy Award and five other Oscars in 2002, this original 1927 version descends from a 1926 hit Broadway play by Maurine Watkins. Its a terrifically entertaining mix of humor and melodrama as well as a pungent critique of trash journalism. Frank Urson signed onto Chicago as director, although it is substantially the work of Cecil B.