In Old Chicago (1937)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.1/10   

Director:

Henry King

Escritores:

Lamar Trotti (screenplay) and
Sonya Levien (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

15 abril 1938 (USA)

Género:

Acción | Drama | Musical | Romance

Frase comercial:

The great American motion picture!

Plot:

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

Plot Keywords:

Fire | Cow | Lawyer | Brother | Marriage

Premios:

Won 2 Oscars. Another 4 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

The Great Chicago Fire

Reparto

Tyrone Power	...	Dion O'Leary
Alice Faye	...	Belle Fawcett
Don Ameche	...	Jack O'Leary
Alice Brady	...	Molly O'Leary
Andy Devine	...	Pickle Bixby
Brian Donlevy	...	Gil Warren
Phyllis Brooks	...	Ann Colby
Tom Brown	...	Bob O'Leary
Sidney Blackmer	...	General Phil Sheridan
Berton Churchill	...	Senator Colby
June Storey	...	Gretchen
Paul Hurst	...	Mitch
Tyler Brooke	...	Specialty Singer
J. Anthony Hughes	...	Patrick O'Leary
Gene Reynolds	...	Dion O'Leary as a Boy

También conocida como:

Chicago (Spain) [es]
En el viejo Chicago (Argentina) [es]

Duración:

95 min | 111 min (roadshow version)

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Clasificación:

USA:Approved (PCA #3639) | USA:TV-G (TV rating) | UK:A (original rating) (1938) | UK:U (re-rating) (1994) | Finland:K-16

Locaciones de Filmación:

California, USA

Compañía:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivialidades:

Alice Faye was cast at the instigation of both 'Tyrone Power (I)' and director Henry King.

Citas:

Dion O'Leary: Nothing can lick Chicago!

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en Boom! Hollywood's Greatest Disaster Movies (2000) (V)

Banda de Sonido:

The Blue Danube Waltz, Opus 314

The Great Chicago Fire

The film is delicious in that brassy, over-blown 20th Century Fox way. Among the absurdities is Alice Faye singing "In Old Chicago" in a town that was 35 years old. Yet it's amazing that so much of the actual fire's history is accurately portrayed, such as Mrs. O'Leary's "peg-leg" neighbor who sounded the alarm for the immediate DeKoven St. neighbors. Some of the bigger shots are copied right from lithographs of the period. But then most of the politics is totally fraudulent.

Women extras were not allowed to appear in dangerous situations in '30s Hollywood so watch closely during the street scenes where there are runaway horses and racing fire engines. The "ladies" scrambling around are clearly tall men in Victorian drag. It's a hoot.

Those viewers of a certain age may remember a Sunday evening TV program in the '50s with Walter Kronkite called "You Are There" which put you into historical events. The episode featuring the Chicago Fire cannibalized this Fox film and lifted much of the disaster footage.

There are so many parallels to the previous year's big MGM success "San Francisco" (1936) with Clark Gable and Jeanette McDonald. Here we have Alice Faye also singing in a saloon, a disaster during the night, "dirty politics" with an attempt to clean out the slum zone, little kids in danger during the fire, buildings being dynamited to contain the blaze, the hero searching for days for his lost love among the victims, and so forth.