6.1
“The Great American Motion Picture!”
In Old Chicago (1938)
April 15, 19381h 51mEN
6.6
47 votes
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.
Director
Henry KingWriters
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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$10.0M
Revenue
N/A
Production Companies
Darryl F. Zanuck Productions20th Century Fox
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6.0The 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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