Gaily, Gaily

Gaily, Gaily

🎞️ Movie 107 min US
โ˜… 5.3 /10 1969

The movie of a 19-year-old who went to town-- who went to TOWN!

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. Can Ben expose corruption or will he be caught up in allure of power? An alcoholic investigative reporter and the bordello's ingénue try to help him grow up.

Cast

Beau Bridges
Beau Bridges
Ben Harvey
Melina Mercouri
Melina Mercouri
Lil
Brian Keith
Brian Keith
Francis Sullivan
George Kennedy
George Kennedy
Axel P. Johanson
Hume Cronyn
Hume Cronyn
Tim Grogan
Margot Kidder
Margot Kidder
Adeline
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Roy Poole
Dunne
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Wilfrid Hyde-White
The Governor
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Melodie Johnson
Lilah Letterby
John Randolph
John Randolph
Father
Henry Mancini
Henry Mancini
Composer
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Richard H. Kline
Cinematographer