Alexander's Ragtime Band (film)
1938
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67% Tomatometer 12 Reviews 53% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings In 1871 Chicago, honest lawyer Jack (Don Ameche) and his reckless saloon owner brother Dion (Tyrone Power) are two very different...
In Old Chicago is a 1938 American disaster musical drama film directed by Henry King. The screenplay by Sonya Levien and Lamar Trotti was based on the Niven Busch story, "We the O'Learys". The film is a fictionalized account about the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 and stars Alice Brady as Mrs. O'Leary , the owner of the cow which started the fire ...
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User Reviews. Immortalized by Martha at the beginning of "Who's afraid of Virginia Wolff," "In Old Chicago" is a dramatization (you know, 20th Century Fox style) of the 1871 Chicago fire. As is fitting, it focuses on the owners of the cow that allegedly started it all, the O'Learys.
51 User reviews. 15 Critic reviews. Won 2 Oscars. 2 wins & 4 nominations total.
- (2.6K)
- Action, Drama, Musical
- Henry King
- 1938-04-15
Mar 17, 2003 · The headquarters of the Palmer house, the Field, Leiter & Co. store, The Chicago Tribune, the old Rice theater, the Manor house, the city hall, the Adams Express company, the Illinois Central, the Goodrich Shipping company, the Nineteenth Regiment armory, Benziger’s bookshop – all these, and hundreds more of the edifices which landmarked the Chicago of 1871, were transformed or erected.
Review by Taylor Leverage ★★½ 1. Man, courting in the 19th century was wild. If a woman doesn't want to speak with you, ambush her in her carriage and find out where she lives. If that doesn't work, break into her house and pin her to the floor. It's not criminal, it's romantic.
