Gaily, Gaily (1969)

Directors

Norman Jewison

Cast

Beau Bridges, Melina Mercouri, Brian Keith, George Kennedy

The story

Set in 1910, the film's main character is Ben Harvey (patterned after Ben Hecht): serious about seeing the world, he leaves his home in Galena, Illinois for Chicago, where he meets a woman named Lil, who in reality is the madam of the bordello Ben mistakes for a boarding house. He also is friendly with Adeline, one of the prostitutes. While he tries to find work, Ben encounters other people, including a hard drinking reporter named Sullivan, plus two other men, Grogan and Johanson, who are involved in shady doings in city government.

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