Movies

September, 1990

Only One American GI was ever convicted and hanged by British civil authorities during World War Two. That wartime case, a headline sensation back in 1944, is recapped with some verve in Chicago Joe and the Showgirl(New Line). Although a legend on screen asserts that no names have been changed, no events altered, director Bernard Rose (with a screenplay by David Yallop) appears to take quite a few liberties in this moody vintage blend of harsh reality and a shopgirl's imagined dreams of glory. K...