Chicago: Cecil B. DeMille's Production of the Original 1927 Film Film Noir an honest cop trapped in

an honest cop trapped in a barrel of bad apples

Escaping the Selenties’ king

and was at one time Chaplin's understudy

edited with newly-restored clips

Chicago: Cecil B. DeMille's Production of the Original 1927 Film Film Noir an honest cop trapped inSTREAM 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.