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1969 · 107 mins · English
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Directed by
Norman Jewison
Starring
Hume Cronyn, Brian Keith, Beau Bridges, George Kennedy, Margot Kidder, John Randolph

After being robbed and left alone, runaway Ben Young is rescued by Lil, who runs a Chicago brothel but pretends it’s a boardinghouse. She secures him a job at the city newspaper under Francis Sullivan. Exposed to the metropolis’s corruption, Ben becomes determined to reform Chicago politics, gaining allies along the way.

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