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Chicago, a film set in the 1920’s full of cold-blooded killers and jazz  

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Chicago Chicago, a film set in the 1920's full of cold-blooded killers and jazz. Velma Kelly, a criminal who coincidently shot her husband and her sister she was in a double act with, after catching them in bed together. Velma shows us the story of chorus girl Roxie Hart's murder of Fred Casely a nightclub murderer, whilst letting the audience sample the well-known classic, "All That Jazz". Her husband Amos cheerfully takes the blame for the murder, after Roxie convinces him that the victim was actually a burglar. The Police reveal that Roxie knew the burglar, on an intimate scale to say the very least, upon hearing this, Amos lets Roxie swing for herself so to speak. Roxie's first encounters the criminal justice system when she is put in the women's block in Cook County Jail, which already inhabits Velma and a number of other murderesses. We hear each of their...

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