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, and he nearly starves before Queen Lil takes him under her wing, gives him a room in her high-class bordello, and gets him a job at a newspaper. He’s so sweet and dumb, he thinks Lil’s is a boarding house. He’s soon caught up in an electoral struggle between a secretly corrupt reformer and an openly corrupt councilman.
Director: Norman Jewison.
Stars: Beau Bridges, Melina Mercouri, Brian Keith, George Kennedy, Hume Cronyn, Margot Kidder, Roy Poole, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Melodie Johnson, John Randolph, Charles Tyner, Joan Huntington, Merie Earle, Claudia Bryar, Eric Shea.
1970 Academy Awards – Nominated for an Oscar for Best Art Direction, Set Decoration (Robert F. Boyle/George B. Chan/Edward G. Boyle/Carl Biddiscombe).
1970 Academy Awards – Nominated for an Oscar for Best Costume Design (Ray Aghayan).
1970 Academy Awards – Nominated for an Oscar for Best Sound (Robert Martin/Clem Portman).
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