Director: Robert Altman Rating: IIA Duration: 115mins
Content: In 1934, Kansas City was a schizophrenic time and place. The rest of the country was ravaged by the Depression but Kansas City was an oasis of opportunity for risk-takers and entrepreneurs. Gambling was illegal but freely available. Bond issues enabled the construction of education and cultural facilities Machine politics and Mafia control ensured a perverse kind of prosperity. And infusing the city with its own energy was the jazz that reverberated through the ghettos as both an antidote to and a reflection of the period's inherent racism. This is the world that surrounds Blondie O Hara, a young telegraph operator, when she devises an absurdly heroic plan to take a drug-dependent socialite hostage to save the life of her small-time hood of a husband. Trying to adapt the attitudes of the tough-taking women she's admired in the movies-Jean Harlow an
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Kansas City[VCD] (Date: 2000-05-18)
Price($):
HK$45(US$)
Publisher:City Laser & Video Company Ltd.
No of Disk: 2
Screen: 4:3
Region Code: All
Subtitle: Chinese(Traditional)
Languages: English
Rating: IIA
Video: NTSC
Audio: Vocal Stereo