CITY FOR CONQUEST

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• Release Year: 1940
• Genre: Drama; Film-Noir
• Plot: 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.'
• Cast: James Cagney; Ann Sheridan; Frank Craven; Donald Crisp; Frank McHugh; Arthur Kennedy; George Tobias; Jerome Cowan; Elia Kazan; Anthony Quinn; Lee Patrick; Blanche Yurka; George Lloyd; Joyce Compton; Thurston Hall; Ben Welden; John Arledge; Edward Keane; Selmer Jackson; Joseph Crehan; Murray Alper; Ward Bond; Dudley Dickerson; John Dilson; Jay Eaton; Frank Faylen; Pat Flaherty; Edward Gargan; David Gorcey; Joe Gray; Harrison Greene; Kit Guard; Margaret Hayes; Sam Hayes; Arthur Housman; John Indrisano; Thomas E. Jackson; Victor Kilian; Charles Lane; Ethelreda Leopold; Sidney Miller; Jack Mower; William Newell; William H. O'Brien; George O'Hanlon; Garry Owen; Sally Payne; Jack Perry; Lee Phelps; Bernice Pilot; John Sheehan; Charles Sherlock; Buster Slaven; Bob Steele; Charles Sullivan; Frank Sully; Dale Van Sickel; Billy Wayne; Dick Wessel; Frank Wilcox; Charles C. Wilson; Robert Winkler; Anatole Litvak; Jean Negulesco; John Wexley; Aben Kandel
• Director: Anatole Litvak
• Runtime: 1:44
• Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Home Video
• Media Format: Movie