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15/04/1938 Drama, History 1h 51m
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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.

  1. Henry King

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Tyrone Power

    Dion O'Leary

  2. Alice Faye

    Belle Fawcett

  3. Don Ameche

    Jack O'Leary

  4. Alice Brady

    Molly O'Leary

  5. Andy Devine

    Pickle Bixby

  6. Brian Donlevy

    Gil Warren

  7. Phyllis Brooks

    Ann Colby

  8. Tom Brown

    Bob O'Leary

  9. Sidney Blackmer

    General Phil Sheridan

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-04-04
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...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$10,000,000.00

Revenue
$0.00

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