Another unlikely publicity-hound stands at the center of this roaring '20s satire. Ginger Rogers plays a showgirl who confesses to a murder she did not commit. The resulting press coverage should, of course, help her career. But like Carole Lombard's designing small-town girl, she finds that the system can only be played so far before best-laid plans cave under their own weight. Britain's National Film Theatre, in their recent retrospective of the director, called Roxie Hart, "a masterpiece of form, of ensemble acting, of powerhouse comedy and scripting."
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. Producer: Nunnally Johnson. Director: William A. Wellman. Screenwriter: Nunnally Johnson. Based on a play by Maurine Watkins. Cinematography: Leon Shamroy. Editor: James B. Clark. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Adolphe Menjou, George Montgomery, Lynne Overman, Nigel Bruce. 35mm, b/w, 75 min.
