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In Old Chicago
The Great American Motion Picture!
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.
- Original title
- In Old Chicago
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- $10,000,000
- Revenue
- —
CinemaSerf
Apr 4, 2022 · via TMDB
The two "O'Leary" brothers grow up without their father in an house where their widowed mother runs quite a successful laundry business. One son, "Jack" (Don Ameche), shows promise as a lawyer; the other "Dion" (Tyrone Power) is a more inventive sort of fella. After a few, quite entertaining wooing antics, the latter hooks up with visiting chanteuse "Belle" (Alice Faye) and together they start a business that rapidly expands so as to soon dominate the rather rundown "Patch" area of Chicago. The city government is riddled with corruption and so a group of civil libertarians nominate brother "Jack" to be mayor - a plan supported, for other reasons, by his now very wealthy sibling. It's only a matter of time before the two clash - but who will prevail? Power is charming and engaging here, he has a twinkle in his eye and there is certainly some chemistry between him and Faye. The ending, though impressive to watch with all the pyrotechnics of the Great Fire of 1871 that devoured thousands of the predominantly wooden structures of the area, is all a bit hurried and weak. The more interesting political and personal struggles between the two men, and agitator "Warren" (Brian Donlevy) should have featured more, with less emphasis on the initial character development and I could have done without the musical numbers that though ably enough performed by Faye, just sucked too much of the pace of this Cain and Abel style of story. Still, it's enjoyable to watch and gives us a hint at just how corruption and power-brokering functioned back then.
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Tyrone Power
Dion O'Leary
Alice Faye
Belle Fawcett
Don Ameche
Jack O'Leary
Alice Brady
Molly O'Leary
Andy Devine
Pickle Bixby
Brian Donlevy
Gil Warren
Phyllis Brooks
Ann Colby
Tom Brown
Bob O'Leary
Sidney Blackmer
General Phil Sheridan
Berton Churchill
Senator Colby
June Storey
Gretchen
Paul Hurst
Mitch
Tyler Brooke
Specialty Singer
J. Anthony Hughes
Pat O'Leary
Gene Reynolds
Dion O'Leary (as a boy)
Bobs Watson
Bob O'Leary (as a boy)
Madame Sul-Te-Wan
Hattie
Spencer Charters
Commissioner W.J. Beavers
Rondo Hatton
Rondo - Body Guard
Ruth Gillette
Miss Lou
Eddie Collins
Drunk
Clarence Wilson
Lawyer
Frank Dae
Judge
Harry Stubbs
Fire Commissioner
Joe King
Ship's Captain
Francis Ford
Driver
Wade Boteler
Police Officer
Gustav von Seyffertitz
Dutch - Politician in Jack's Office
Russell Hicks
Politician in Jack's Office
Brooks Benedict
Courtroom Spectator (uncredited)
George Chandler
Onlooker (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Woman with Colby (uncredited)
Vera Lewis
Wedding Witness (uncredited)
William H. O'Brien
Senate Waiter (uncredited)
Yakima Canutt
Stunts
Henry King
Director
Barbara McLean
Editor
Darryl F. Zanuck
Producer
Lamar Trotti
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Sonya Levien
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