Broadcast: 9th October 1944

Starring: Cecil B DeMille, Robert Young, Cy Kendall, John Hodiak, Tom Holland , Dorothy Lamour, Ruby Dandridge, Janet Scott

Added: Oct 04 2010

In 1840 two English men travelling in America tried to find the city of Chicago. They heard it was somewhere in the Middle West but they couldn’t find a man p that recognised its existence. The story indicates how fast and furious was the growth of this spectacular dynamic city. 20th Century Fox film success In Old Chicago is a dramatic episode from the pageant of Chicago a story of the city’s violent birth and struggle for existence, of love and treachery and sacrifice and of America’s undying faith in the future.