The World Premiere of the Columbia film, Chicago Syndicate, took place at Chicago, on Wednesday, June 29, 1955 at the Roosevelt theatre , State near Washington. An ad in the Chicago Tribune, for the same date, reads:
Today---8:45 a.m. WORLD PREMIERE! Filmed in Chicago! See exciting pursuit in Chicago's Loop underground system! 10 Billion-Dollar Coast-to-Coast Crime Empire in its Sinster Operation! The Movie Gangland Tried to Stop! A big-shot picks up a phone in Chicago and . . . A man is shot in cold blood on a Miami street . . . The owner of a Denver factory---who won't pay for protection---is brutally beaten . . . A $100,000 horse race is fixed in New York . . . 12 beautiful girls go to work in a plush gambling house in L.A. . . . "Chicago Syndicate" A Columbia Picture starring Dennis O'Keefe, Abbe Lane, Allison Hayes, Paul Stewart, Xavier Cugat and his Orchestra
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The film was showcased as the top-half of a double-bill, of which the bottom-half was:
Hienas Humanas (1955) (1955) from Universal, with
Rory Calhoun,
Julie Adams and
Ray Danton.
