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Gaily, Gaily (1969)
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23 March 1970 (Denmark)
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The movie of a 19-year-old who went to town-- who went to TOWN! more
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To escape sinful impulses, Ben Harvey, a callow youth, leaves his small town for Chicago in 1910. A pickpocket promptly relieves him of his money...
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Nominated for 3 Oscars.
Another 1 nomination
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Slowly, slowly
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Beau Bridges | ... | Ben Harvey |
 | Melina Mercouri | ... | Lil |
| Brian Keith | ... | Sullivan |
| George Kennedy | ... | Johanson |
 | Hume Cronyn | ... | Grogan |
 | Margot Kidder | ... | Adeline |
| Roy Poole | ... | Dunne |
| Wilfrid Hyde-White | ... | The Governor |
| Melodie Johnson | ... | Lilah |
 | John Randolph | ... | Father |
| Charles Tyner | ... | Dr. Lazarus |
| Joan Huntington | ... | Kitty |
| Merie Earle | ... | Granny |
| Claudia Bryar | ... | Mother |
| Eric Shea | ... | Younger Brother |
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Chicago, Chicago (UK)
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Rated R for brief nudity/sexual content. (2006 re-rating)
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107 min
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Francis X. Sullivan:
Ahh, he's stone cold dead.
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Featured in The 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008) (TV)
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There's Enough to Go Around
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The first 15 minutes or so are wonderful, a rose-colored reminiscence of small-town America at the turn of the last century that suggests "Ah, Wilderness!" Then the Ben Hecht prototype, played by Beau Bridges with such innocence as to border on retardation, lights out for Chicago, and the narrative loses traction. It's quite a gorgeous, expensive production, and Melina Mercouri helps out as the madam who takes him under her wing (this was right toward the end of the movie era when prostitutes and bordellos were considered automatically titillating and hilarious, hence neither Mercouri nor any of her girls are fleshed out as characters). The always-good Brian Keith is Ben's alcoholic newspaper mentor, and other good actors mill about (Hume Cronyn, George Kennedy), but it's all color and very little forward thrust. Chicago 1910 had to be more interesting than this, and there must be more compelling stories to tell about it.