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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 ...
A fictional story of the O'Leary brothers, rivals in Chicago politics and business, and their roles in the Great Fire of 1871. The film features Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, and a spectacular fire sequence.
- (2.6K)
- Action, Drama, Musical
- Henry King
- 1938-04-15
In Old Chicago (1938) -- (Movie Clip) There Wasn't Any Gambling Involved Having arrived as kids in the prologue, it’s now 1867 and Don Ameche appears as lawyer Jack O’Leary, with mom Molly (Alice Brady) at her thriving laundry, joined by Tyrone Power as rakish Dion, Andy Devine his sidekick Pickle, dreaming big, in 20th-Century Fox’s In Old Chicago, 1938.
- Henry King
- Tyrone Power
Rent In Old Chicago on Fandango at Home, Prime Video, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. In 1871 Chicago, honest lawyer Jack (Don Ameche) and his reckless saloon owner brother Dion ...
- (51)
- Tyrone Power
- Henry King
- History, Drama
May 22, 2019 · SDC FILMS Restoration Project. In 1854, the patriarch Patrick O'Leary of the O'Leary family dies in an accident nearby Chicago while traveling on the midwes...
- 111 min
- 239.7K
- Kenneth Howard Smith
The O'Leary brothers--honest Jack and roguish Dion--become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire. In 1854, Patrick O'Leary, patriarch of the O'Leary family, dies in an accident nearby Chicago while traveling the Midwestern prairie. His wife Molly O'Leary raises her three sons alone, working as laundress.
Tyrone Power and Don Ameche star in this acclaimed film about greed, corruption and politics in late 1800s Chicago. While Jack O'Leary (Ameche) is elected ma...
