Night Life in Chicago (1948)

*** (out of 4)

TravelTalk short from MGM takes a look at what goes on in Chicago during the nighttime, at least that's what the title says. This here really plays more like a hotel promo because we're basically looking at a lot of hotels and what they offer. There are some very interesting scenes including a dinner where Charles Dawes, former Vice-President, is sitting at a table with the then mayor of Chicago. We get to see a couple show room dance floors, which wasn't too interesting but this builds up to a dancing horse, which I must admit, was pretty entertaining to me. There's another sequence where we see the Chicago Theatre and it's showing Joan Crawford's Possessed. I've seen dozens of these shorts and to me this here was one of the better entries in the series.

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