Carrie (1952)
Movie adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's classic novel about a young, unmarried woman struggling to survive in Chicago and New York City. Starring Laurence Olivier and Jennifer Jones.
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Dillinger (1973)
Film depiction of Chicago's notorious gangster, John Dillinger, and the FBI agents who pursued him. Starring Warren Oates and Ben Johnson.
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Compulsion (1959)
Drama based on the 1924 trial of teenaged thrill murderers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. Starring Orson Welles.
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Eight Men Out (1988)
Film based on Eliot Asinof's book about the famous 1919 sports scandal, in which Chicago's White Sox baseball team conspired to lose the World Series. Starring John Cusack.
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Native Son (1986)
Movie adaptation of the classic Richard Wright novel about a young African-American man whose life in 1930s Chicago gradually slips from his control. Co-produced for the PBS series, "American Playhouse."
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Saint Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)
Film about the bloody 1929 gangland massacre in which a group of Al Capone's henchmen, disguised as police officers and toting machine guns, murdered several members of Bugs Moran's rival gang in a north-side auto garage. Starring Jason Robards and George Segal.
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Studs Lonigan
(1960)
Movie adaptation of the classic James T. Farrell novel about a restless young man from Chicago's South Side.
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