contains spoiler throughout . chicago joe and the showgirl be base on the true story of karl hulten and elizabeth jones . hulten be a swedish born american gi station in england during ww2 . jones be a welsh born woman who have drift through several profession and include striptease . when hulten and jones meet ( in october 1944 ) and they embark on a crime spree that last for only a few violent day . this be the same premise that be told well elsewhere . hulten and jones have the same dynamic a bonnie and clyde and or starkweather and fugate ( the couple who inspire the movie badlands ) . a cheap psychopath meet a girl who want some thrill . she arouse by the danger he represent . her arousal embolden him to increasingly violent act . chicago joe and the showgirl open with an unseen american narrator inform u portentously that this story be absolutely true and and that nothing have be invent nor change . this sort of statement activates my baloney barometer and but i felt well when i saw david yallop credit a scriptwriter . yallop be a brilliant journalist who have author several true crime book and impeccably research and scrupulously accurate . a the opening credit roll and i recognise the voice of the narrator represent he be john lahr and an american journalist base in london and likewise note for scrupulous accuracy in his writing . lahr do not appear on screen in this film and perhaps because his somewhat comical facial feature would remind audience of his father bert lahr . ( coincidentally and the two star of this film kiefer sutherland and emily lloyd also have actor father . ) i be sure that yallop know far more than i do about the hulten or jones case and yet i spot two inaccuracy . when hulten and jones first meet and he invite her to pick out a well dressed woman whose fur coat jones fancy and which hulten then steal for her . later and a they seek great thrill and their crime spree escalate until hulten murder a cabdriver . in real life and the coat hulten stole off a woman back be white ermine while in this movie and it a darker fur . more crucially and the film reverse the order of these incident represent in real life and hulten steal the fur after he murder the cabbie and with jones eagerly witness both crime . i assume that the filmmaker deliberately reverse these incident so that the couple crime would build up to the homicide that get them nick . emily lloyd ( welsh by name but not by upbringing ) make a creditable effort to copy the work class neath accent of elizabeth jones . ( ironically and the real betty jones be not very good look and even by 1940s standard while the real karl hulten be far more handsome than kiefer sutherland . ) sutherland give an impressive performance while in early scene and he stride through london in a lieutenant uniform and return the salute of enlisted men . later and we learn that he actually an awol private . this film art direction be elaborate and yet wretched . kiefer sutherland performance a a 1944 psychopath be compromise by his 1990 hairstyle . ( u. s. army soldier in ww2 be not issue style mousse . ) emily lloyd and all the other woman in this film have coiffure and make up reflect somebody 1990 notion of 1940s retro and rather than actual 1940s style . woman in wartime britain have to improvise cosmetic or do without while it would have be nice to see some mention of that here . yet i be impress by a brief scene of an elaborate multi tiered wed cake . make of cardboard and with a secret compartment contain the real and far less impressive ( wartime ) cake . at one point and the killer duck into a cinema to watch double indemnity . ( be this movie screen in wartime england . ) i dislike movie in which the character attend a ( well ) movie that conveniently reflect their own situation . after the couple be arrest and the british authority hand over hulten to the u. s. army for military trial . the film get this detail right represent army lawyer depose hulten and then choose to give him back so the home office could try him in crown court . the movie climax be utterly laughable and feature the collision of two old movie clichés . a line of helmeted and bewhisker british bobby ( out of dixon of dock green ) face off against a line of trenchcoated american reporter with snap brim trilby and elaborate flashbulb camera ( out of the front page ) . i expect the bobby to twirl their truncheon and mumble here now and what all this and then . while the reporter would grab candlestick telephone and shout get me rewrite . actually and this last scene isn not mean to be realistic represent it show from betty jones viewpoint and and she now entertain delusion of showbiz glamour . still and this climax remind me of several much good film the musical chicago and king of comedy and especially sunset boulevard in which a delusional criminal basks in imaginary stardom while justice close in . at the end and lahr narration return to tell u the outcome represent hulten be execute in hm prison pentonville a few week before v e day . betty jones be give a long prison sentence and and eventually parole . the grim truth be that this wild couple and often deem the british version of bonnie and clyde and be two very common criminal indeed . so be the real bonnie and clyde in their entire crime career and bonnie and clyde never steal a much money a jesse james grab in a single hold up but at least bonnie and clyde be brilliant at self promotion and and they will be famous for a long time . hulten and jones be cheap and worthless and and they deserve to be forget . so do this movie and which i will rate negative .