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City for Conquest (1940)

APPROVED 104 min  -  Crime | Drama | Music  -   21 September 1940 (USA)
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Cagney is Danny Kenny, a truck driver who enters "the fight game" and Sheridan plays his girlfriend... See full summary »

Writers:

John Wexley (screenplay), Aben Kandel (novel)
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Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
James Cagney ...
Danny Kenny
Ann Sheridan ...
Peggy Nash
Frank Craven Frank Craven ...
'Old Timer'
Donald Crisp Donald Crisp ...
Scotty MacPherson
Frank McHugh Frank McHugh ...
'Mutt'
Arthur Kennedy ...
Eddie Kenny
George Tobias ...
'Pinky'
Jerome Cowan Jerome Cowan ...
'Dutch'
Elia Kazan ...
'Googi'
Anthony Quinn ...
Murray Burns
Lee Patrick Lee Patrick ...
Gladys
Blanche Yurka Blanche Yurka ...
Mrs. Nash
George Lloyd George Lloyd ...
'Goldie'
Joyce Compton Joyce Compton ...
Lilly
Thurston Hall Thurston Hall ...
Max Leonard
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Storyline

Cagney is Danny Kenny, a truck driver who enters "the fight game" and Sheridan plays his girlfriend, Peggy. Danny realizes success in the ring and uses his income to pay for his brother Eddie's music composition career, while Peggy goes on to become a professional dancer. When Peggy turns down Danny's marriage proposal for her dancing career, Danny, who wanted to quit the fight game, continues on & is blinded by rosin dust purposely placed on the boxing gloves of his opponent during a fight. His former manager finances a newsstand for the now semi-blind Danny. The movie ends with brother Eddie becoming a successful composer and dedicates a symphony at Carnegie Hall to his brother who listens to the concert on the radio from his newsstand. Peggy, now down on her luck, but in the audience at Carnegie, rushes to Danny at his newsstand where they reunite. The movie is based on a novel of the same name. Written by Bacardi  

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Plot Keywords:

Audience | Composer | Truck Driver | Boxing | Dancer  | See more »

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A story with all the fire and fury of its two great stars!

Genres:

Crime | Drama | Music

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

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Also Known As:

Im Taumel der Weltstadt See more »

Company Credits

Production Co:

Warner Bros. Pictures See more »
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Technical Specs

Runtime:

 | West Germany:

Sound Mix:

Mono (RCA Sound System)

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1
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Trivia

Quentin "Baby" Breese a professional boxer and ranked as one of the first ten light weights in the world and losing only 15 of 100 fights in his career was the boxing stand in for James Cagney. See more »

Quotes

'Googi': [His dying words after being shot by a hoodlum he thought was unarmed] Ah gee, never figured on that at all.
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Connections

Featured in Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey (1995) See more »

Soundtracks

"Jalousie"
(Jealousy) (1925) (uncredited)
Music by Jacob Gade
Danced by Anthony Quinn and Ann Sheridan at the Rose Garden Ballroom and later in a montage sequence See more »