In Old Chicago [VHS]
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VHS Movie Reviews of In Old Chicago [VHS]
Movie Review: Great special effects!
Summary: 4 Stars
Tyrone Power and Don Ameche co-star in this stagey, grandiose historical drama, in which the rivalry of two brothers culminates in the Great Chicago Fire of 1873. The plot leading up to the fire is kind of standard fare, but the special effects at the end are really dazzling and horrific. Power gets a bigger, juicier role than Ameche, but they're both pretty good here. A reasonably fun rental.Movie Review: AN OSCAR FOR ALICE BRADY...
Summary: 4 Stars
As the legendary Mrs. O'Leary, Brady has a few miraculous scenes (her cow kicks over a kerosene lamp and thusly starts the big blaze of 1871). The remainder of the movie, however, which features Ameche as her perfect son and Power as her shrewd, black sheep scamp - is on a different level entirely. It's a mediocre - though jolly - quasi-historical melodrama involving brawls, riots, capricious temperaments, police squads, cafe ladies, gaudy saloons (with Alice Faye smiling that great open smile of hers). When one hears Faye's mellow velvety voice caress her musical numbers, you can almost forgive lack of acting ability; Ameche is so fatuous here that he's almost likeable...Fox made this film in order to capitalise on the success of MGM's SAN FRANCISCO - it was not completely in vain. Based upon the novel WE THE O'LEARYS by Niven Busch. The supporting cast includes Tom Brown, Sidney Blackmer, Brian Donlevy and Andy Devine.Movie Review: A Pre-"Backdraft" Masterpiece
Summary: 4 Stars
20th Century-Fox took its cue from MGM's 1936 hit "San Francisco" (with its spectacular earthquake scenes) and made its own disaster hit. Tyrone Power and Alice Faye were Fox's answer to MGM's Clark Gable and Jeanette MacDonald, and along with Don Ameche and the incomparable Alice Brady, their film just as fun and entertaining as MGM's hit. Good Americana, with enough melodrama and music to satisfy any diehard movie fan. The highlight is the great Chicago fire, which is even more spectacular than the burning of Atlanta in another 30's classic, "GWTW". It is amazing they did all those great special effects without computers and animation. Just good old-fashioned sets on the back-lot. "In Old Chicago" is a golden chestnut from the early disaster movie genre of the 1930's.
Movie Review: A Pre-"Backdraft" Masterpiece
Summary: 4 Stars
20th Century-Fox took its cue from MGM's 1936 hit "San Francisco" (with its spectacular earthquake scenes) and made its own disaster hit. Tyrone Power and Alice Faye were Fox's answer to MGM's Clark Gable and Jeanette MacDonald. Along with Don Ameche and the incomparable Alice Brady, the two leads made their film just as fun and entertaining as MGM's hit. Good Americana, with enough melodrama and music to satisfy any diehard movie fan. The highlight is the great Chicago fire, which is even more spectacular than the burning of Atlanta in another 30's classic, "GWTW". It is amazing they did all those great special effects without computers and animation. Just good old-fashioned sets on the back-lot. "In Old Chicago" is a golden chestnut from the early disaster movie genre of the 1930's.
Movie Review: "We O'Learys are a Strange Tribe"...
Summary: 4 Stars
that's a line of dialogue that gets pretty tired towards the end of this spectacular, since it is much too overused. However, be that as it may, this film used to be on TV a lot when I was a kid, and I always used to watch it for the marvelous fire footage. It's the sort of scene that appears to be a history book come to life, with horse-drawn fire engines racing down the street, and massive buildings caving in while blazing away. And wouldn't you know it? The whole thing started in the barn of Mrs. O'Leary--the same Mrs. O'Leary who is the mother to mayor Don Ameche and crooked guy Tyrone Power. The two brothers are always at odds, eventually even clashing, though not romantically, over Ty's treatment of chanteuse Alice Faye. Yet, because they are A Strange Tribe, they always are there for each other when the chips are down--and with an inferno raging away, the chips don't get downer than this!