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In Old Chicago

In Old Chicago

6,7 /10 (49 Votes)
1938 EN 111 min

Overview

The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.

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Release date

15/04/1938

Votes

49

Popularity

1.8

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Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

111 min

Budget

$10,000,000

Original Soundtrack

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2022-04-04

⭐ 6

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 "Ja…

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