The Girl from Chicago
An undercover government agent on a case in Mississippi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman who's being menaced by a local crime boss.
From the archive
I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, along with other pictures of the era that I find interesting, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. While generally thought of as one of director Oscar Micheaux's lesser films, The Girl from Chicago is also one of his earliest surviving sound pictures. Filmed with an all-black cast of non-professional actors, it follows a federal agent who falls in love with a girl in a lot of trouble. He attempts to get her out of it, but might find himself dragged in instead.
Why this is free to watch
The Girl from Chicago (1932) is hosted by the Internet Archive as a public-domain or openly licensed work, which means its copyright has expired, lapsed, or was released by the rights holder. The uploader declared an explicit licence, linked in the source panel. Nitrate streams the file directly from the Archive and hosts no video itself.
- Director
- Oscar Micheaux
- Starring
- Carl Mahon, Starr Calloway, Alice B. Russell, Eunice Brooks, Minto Cato, John Everett, Frank H. Wilson, Cherokee Thornton
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