Search - Chicago Joe and the Showgirl on DVD

MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Situations, Strong Sexual Content, Not For Children, Profanity, Substance Abuse Movie Release: 1990 DVD Release: 10/21/2003 Format: DVD - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 45 mins Studio: Live/Artisan Members Wishing: 2 Genres: Crime, Crime Thriller

Director Bernard Rose and screenwriter David Yallop were inspired by the real-life Hulten/Jones murder case of 1944, famously known as The Cleft Chin Murder Case, after a London cabbie was found murdered. It was a sensation in England, where American soldier Karl Hulten and British showgirl Elizabeth Maud Jones became household names -- even beating out news of the war. 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. ~ Paul Brenner, All Movie Guide

Emily Lloyd - Betty Jones
Kiefer Sutherland - Karl Hulten/"Ricky Allen"
Patsy Kensit - Joyce Cook
Keith Allen - Lenny Bexley
Liz Fraser - Mrs. Evans