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Director Henry King’s 1938 In Old Chicago is a sumptuous, beautifully acted and thoroughly enjoyable, fanciful tale of old Chicago running up to the Great Fire of 1871. Alice Brady picked up a best supporting […]
Christopher Knight stars in the 1960 drama Studs Lonigan as the title’s character Studs Lonigan, an Irish immigrant who adapts to life on the streets of Chicago and in the beds of various women in […]
Director Herbert Ross’s ambitious and intelligent 1981 American musical romantic drama film Pennies from Heaven is adapted for American audiences by Dennis Potter from his classic 1978 BBC TV drama miniseries, changing its setting from London and the Forest of Dean […]
You don’t expect to find Jack Lemmon in a Western, but here he is in the entertaining and imaginative 1958 cowboy tale Cowboy, based on Frank Harris’s apocryphal autobiography My Reminiscences as a Cowboy On […]
‘Don’t see it unless your nerves are bullet proof!’ Director Don Siegel’s sizzling 1957 gangster thriller and crime biopic provides a great part for Mickey Rooney in a career-changing role. Unlikely though Rooney is as […]
The evil spreads. Two surviving Gatlin, Nebraska, small-town brothers Eli and Joshua are adopted by a Chicago city couple, William and Amanda Porter, in director James D R Hickox’s gory and pretty silly 1995 second horror sequel […]
Billy Bob Thornton returns as Willie Soke from the 2003 hit Bad Santa, and teams up again with Tony Cox as his angry little sidekick Marcus Skimore to knock off sexy Diane (Christina Hendricks)’s Chicago […]