City for Conquest
- Original title
- City for Conquest
- Year
- 1940
- Running time
- 104 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- John Wexley. Novel: Aben Kandel
- Cast
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- James Cagney
- Ann Sheridan
- Anthony Quinn
- Frank Craven
- Donald Crisp
- Arthur Kennedy
- Frank McHugh
- George Tobias
- Blanche Yurka
- Elia Kazan
- Bob Steele
- George Lloyd
- Joyce Compton
- Ward Bond
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- Music
- Cinematography
James Wong Howe, Sol Polito (B&W)- Producer
- Genre
- Drama | Sports. Boxing
- Synopsis
- Cagney is Danny Kenny, a truck driver who enters "the fight game" and Sheridan his former girlfriend, Peggy. While Danny is realizing success in the ring, he is blinded by acid on the boxing gloves of his opponent during a fight. When Danny attempts to get even with the gangster who was reponsible for for his blindness he is wounded. His former manager finances a newsstand for the now blind and handicapped Danny who uses his income to pay for his bother Eddie's music education. The movie is based on a novel of the same name.
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