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City for Conquest (1940)
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21 September 1940 (USA)
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A story with all the fire and fury of its two great stars!
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Cagney is Danny Kenny, a truck driver who enters "the fight game" and Sheridan plays his girlfriend...
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Brilliant Cagney Turn
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | James Cagney | ... | Danny Kenny |
 | Ann Sheridan | ... | Peggy Nash |
 | Frank Craven | ... | 'Old Timer' |
| Donald Crisp | ... | Scotty MacPherson |
| Frank McHugh | ... | 'Mutt' |
| Arthur Kennedy | ... | Eddie Kenny |
| George Tobias | ... | 'Pinky' |
| Jerome Cowan | ... | 'Dutch' |
 | Elia Kazan | ... | 'Googi' |
 | Anthony Quinn | ... | Murray Burns |
| Lee Patrick | ... | Gladys |
| Blanche Yurka | ... | Mrs. Nash |
| George Lloyd | ... | 'Goldie' |
| Joyce Compton | ... | Lilly |
| Thurston Hall | ... | Max Leonard |
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104 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (RCA Sound System)
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Jean Negulesco took over direction of the film for a short period when Anatole Litvak suffered an eye injury.
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Featured in Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey (1995)
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Powder My Back for Me
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City for Conquest (1940)
*** (out of 4)
James Cagney's brilliant performance is the highlight of this film about a boxer (Cagney) who risks it all for the love of his girl (Ann Sheridan) and his brother (Arthur Kennedy). It's rather amazing at how great Cagney can be in so many different type of roles. Yes, he mainly played wise guys but whenever he broke this mode he just shows what a great actor he was and that's certainly true with his performance here, which has to rank as one of the greatest of his career. The transformations his character goes through is certainly a juicy role for an actor and Cagney nails all of the different moods without any problems. When the boxer starts to lose his site is when Cagney really shines and his performance here is brilliantly done. I'm not sure what they did to Cagney's eyes but whatever they did looked terrific. I didn't care too much for Sheridan as I thought she brought the film down and a better actress would have suited the film better. The supporting cast is excellent and features nice performances by Kennedy, Frank Craven, Donald Crisp, Frank McHugh and George Tobias. Anthony Quinn is terrific in his role as Cagney's rival and future director Elia Kazan also shocked me with how great he was. The big boxing scene was brilliantly filmed and looked extremely well bringing in all sorts of intense action. The ending is pretty hokey but otherwise this is a highly impressive little film.