Alice Brady, Alice Faye, Andy Devine

With a tab topping $1.8 million and ambitious special effects, this epic Hollywood film was one of the most costly of its day, retelling the infamous tale of the cow that supposedly started the Great ...( read more  read more... )Chicago Fire of 1871. Alice Brady won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role as washerwoman Molly O'Leary, whose two grown sons -- a rogue (Tyrone Power) and an attorney (Don Ameche) -- are as much at odds personally as they are professionally.

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Unrated, 205 min.

Directed by: Henry King

Release Date: December 31, 1937

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DVD Release Date: August 9, 2005

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  • November 20, 2009
    Silly love story based around the Great Chicago Fire.
  • August 12, 2009
    Barely entertainment.
  • September 7, 2008
    good stuff great story/cast
  • April 25, 2008
    A historical piece about the Chicago fire of 1871 and 'the O'Leary tribe'. Pretty good movie that is also educational.
  • March 4, 2008
    I was really expecting to like this movie, considering who was in the movie and the storyline but instead I wasn't too impressed. The characters seem to be all over the place and left me scratching my head. Amazing cast, just doesn't do anything for me.
  • March 31, 2007
    brilliant ....movie..
  • December 29, 2006
    One one the great Disaster movies
  • December 10, 2006
    Quite a poor movie to say the least..... Certainly not worth the time to watch it.

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