City For Conquest
Warner Bros. (1940)
Drama, Film-Noir
In Collection
#2782
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012569791770
IMDB   7.4
1 hr 45 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR
Anthony Quinn Murray Burns
Arthur Kennedy Eddie Kenny
Elia Kazan Googi Zucco
Ann Sheridan Peggy 'Peg' Nash
Anatole Litvak
James Cagney Danny Kenny (Young Samson)
Donald Crisp Scotty MacPherson
George Tobias Pinky
Frank McHugh Mutt
Jerome Cowan Dutch
Frank Craven Old Timer
Lee Patrick Gladys
Blanche Yurka Mrs. Nash
George Lloyd Goldie
Joyce Compton Lilly
Thurston Hall Max Leonard
Director
Anatole Litvak
Jean Negulesco
B. Reeves Eason
Producer Anatole Litvak
Hal B. Wallis
Writer John Wexley
Aben Kandel
Cinematography James Wong Howe
Sol Polito
Musician Max Steiner


The Famed Tale Of Boxing Fury And Brotherly Sacrifice.

Ex-Golden Gloves fighter Danny Kenny has it all worked out. He'll turn pro to bankroll his brother's dream of writing a symphonic paean to the teeming city where they both live: New York. But life pulls the sidewalk out from under Danny when he's blinded during a brutal 15-round welterweight title bout.

James Cagney plays Danny in this heart-tugging melodrama co-starring Ann Sheridan, Anthony Quinn, film-debuting Arthur Kennedy and in a rare acting turn before becoming a director, Elia Kazan. Among familiar studio players, there's an unbilled one: a vivid backlot and rear-screen Manhattan. "Sometimes we wonder," The New York Times' Bosley Crowther wrote, "whether it wasn't really the Warner brothers who got New York from the Indians, so diligent and devoted have they been in feeling the great city's pulse."
Edition Details
Distributor Warner Home Video
Release Date 7/18/2006
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Standard 1.33:1 B&W
Subtitles English; French; Spanish
Audio Tracks ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono [CC]
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 1

Features
Warner Night at the Movies 1940 Short Subjects Gallery:
·Vintage Newsreel
·Oscar®-Nominated Short Service with the Colors
·Classic Cartoon Stage Fright
·Trailers of City for Conquest and 1940's The Fighting 69th
New Featurette Molls and Dolls: The Women of Gangster Films
Commentary by Richard Schickel
Breakdowns of 1940: Studio Blooper Reel
Audio-Only Bonus: Radio Show with Alice Faye and Robert Preston