In Old Chicago, 1937 (Grade D-)

Director: Henry King
Awards --won Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and was nominated for many more Academy Awards but didn't win
Staring: Tyrone Power; Alice Faye; Don Ameche; Alice Brady; Andy Devine; Brian Donlevy; Phyllis Brooks; Tom Brown; Sidney Blackmer; Benton Churchill; June Storey; Paul Hurst

sez says-- this movie is famous for being the most expensive film made up to this point in history. By the standards of the 1930s it has an amazing presentation of the Chicago Fire. That seems to be where the money was spent..but that alone is not much to recommend it -- and it has little else. The story is dull--to stupid and the ideology is retrograde. So much so that you can't ignore it.  For instance:  
It suggests a man literally should just take the woman he wants and overpower her physically (while she fights him and calls for help) but that is what she wants and she ends-up in a passionate embrace, kissing him.  So when the police arrive to help her they are not needed. Humm--not so good. We all know that, that has proven to be an excuse for rape (she really wanted it, etc) --so you have to cringe through that sort of thing (this happens more than once in this movie, I might add).  Plus there are songs about 'happy darkies'  and their love for the 'ole massa'.  Add to this the need to destroy 'The Patch' (ie the part of town where the poor live) because that is where all the evil comes from --ie the poor are to blame for their own poverty.   Or how about, the manipulation of politics --and the stealing of votes is ok, just so you have good intentions.  This movie is full of this kind of tripe. (grade D-) --not an F only becasue the fire scenes are rather interesting from the perspective of the history of film making.