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Pioneers: Oscar MicheauxFilm 6 of 9
The Girl from Chicago
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Micheaux, 1932: a Secret Service man (Carl Mahon) is sent to a small town to break up a numbers racket and falls for the girl the racket owns. Sound, two-strip cheap, a nightclub that is also a church. The Girl from Chicago is a crime picture on the race-film circuit. Micheaux using pulps the way he used novels, as a structure he can fill with the people Hollywood would not cast.
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A numbers racket, a Secret Service man, a nightclub that doubles as a church. Micheaux borrows a pulp plot because a plot is a container for faces Hollywood would not photograph. The musical numbers are the budget spent where you can see it.
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