Product Details

• Actors: Emily Lloyd, Kiefer Sutherland, John Lahr, Liz Fraser, Harry Fowler
• Directors: Bernard Rose
• Writers: David Yallop
• Producers: Jane Frazer, Tim Bevan
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Live / Artisan
• VHS Release Date: January 11, 1994
• Run Time: 103 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 155658427X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #284,755 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

An American soldier stationed in England during World War II begins a relationship with a London showgirl. She is intrigued with the mobster lifestyle and he finds himself under her seductive powers despite the fact that he is also dating a more upscale, proper English woman, and already has a life back in America. The couple slowly begin a streak of petty crimes which include the theft of an army vehicle and a fur coat, and eventually escalate to the murder of a London cab driver.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars FATAL ATTRACTION meets BONNIE AND CLYDE in "Chicago Joe and the Showgirl", October 20, 2007

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KerrLines ""Movies,Music,Theatre"" (Baltimore,MD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chicago Joe and the Showgirl (DVD)

Man was this one disturbing movie. If it wasn't positively 100% true I may not have reacted so strongly,but this film IS true with no characters or events altered.Sometimes real life is better than Hollywood.Let me explain.

CHICAGO JOE AND THE SHOWGIRL is a sober a chilling account of a Yank and a showgirl over a five day period in 1944 War ravaged London.It is the faithful retelling of two people,one "Chicago Joe" a.k.a. Ricky Allen (Kiefer Sutherland) who is a self- agrandized wannabe thug living out this "double life" as an American Army Lieutenant and "Georgina"(Emily Lloyd) a two-bit London showgirl with delusions of being Barbara Stanwyck.These two meet on October 3,1944 and for the next five nights go on a joyride spree that becomes increasingly dangerous to the point of killing.This is the ultimate "I dare you to do it" film. As Sutherland's Ricky becomes increasing unsure of what and why he is in this "relationship", Lloyd's Georgina becomes a positive sociopath and is absolutely bone-chilling in this role.She smiles as she sees blood and watches people suffer.It is unnerving at best.

Director Bernard Rose whose later successes include IMMORTAL BELOVED,CANDYMAN,ANNA KARENINA and TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. cleverly styles this film after the famous gangster/femme fatale "noir" films of the Era.At times the viewer is not sure what is true and what is cinema just like the dilemma of the two main characters who begin to obscure reality and fantasy.This is a darkly filmed and darkly portrayed piece of modern day "noir" and is cleverly built up to a most surprising climax (that totally surprised me!)

A really neat and nifty piece of work.A second viewing makes it all the more interesting.Emily Lloyd is really creepy.

10 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars VERY UNUSUAL, February 13, 2000

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walter flakus (Macomb, IL

Macomb, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chicago Joe & The Showgirl [VHS] (VHS Tape)

AN UNUSUAL FILM WHICH VACILLATES BETWEEN FANTASY AND REALITY. I DIDN'T KNOW IF THE FILM STORY WAS REALLY TRUE OR NOT (EVEN THOUGH THE OPENING SAYS IT IS) UNTIL THE LAST SEGMENTS OF THE PICTURE.

OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE BY KIEFER SUTHERLAND

3.0 out of 5 stars Poor Guy, May 13, 2010

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Lynn G "Lynn G" (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chicago Joe & The Showgirl [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I actually found this movie to be pretty good. It flowed pretty well and the story was almost solid. It's a true story about a boy who is doing whatever he can do to impress a girl so he can get in her pants. A noble endeavor, however, this task is not as easy as he may have origionaly thought. Turns out the panties he's chasing happen to belong to a sociopath who encourages him and at some point basically forces him to commit violent crimes.
There is another girl who he is courting who is the good girl of the movie. The one you're rooting for but are equally as frustrated with because she won't... well you get the picture.
Me being who I am could only really conentrate on the poor guys lady situation rather than the crimes he was commiting. In the end I just felt bad that the poor guy never got any. And I think that was the most tramatic thing for me. But, if you can get over that little tidbit (which i might assume most mature adults or even teenagers can do) than this is actually a pretty decent movie.