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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569791770
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: July 18, 2006
Running Time: 104 minutes
Sales Rank: 29405
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 21, 1940
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Description:
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.'
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Rating:  -
City for Conquest is an ambitious film about New York City, based on a novel written in the late 30s. James Cagney is the quintessential New Yorker here, playing his characterization to the hilt, and to great affect.
Ann Sheridan is his "goil," who learns the meaning of love too late, but just in time. Though a decent hoofer (and a great cryer), Sheridan is saddled by her dance partner in the film, Anthony Quinn, who couldn't dance a lick. Thus, dance shots were at a distance or closeups ... Read More
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James Cagney plays a fighter who's trying to impress his squeeze (Ann Sheridan) with his boxing ability, though she has some ambitions of her own, mainly a dancing career that partners her with the oily Anthony Quinn. Arthur Kennedy also appears (his debut in movies) as Cagney's brother, who dreams of writing long-hair symphonies one day but is busy now churning out pop tunes. When Cagney has success in the ring, he refuses to take back Sheridan, who also has success in her dancing career. Then the tide ... Read More
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For me, "City For Conquest" is so honest in its emotion that I totally accept what others might call over-the-top melodramatics. It mirrors, on the outside, what most of us feel on the inside, especially in the dynamics of relationships. Think about those times when you were in love with someone and all the positives and negatives that were part of it; remember the emotional level you felt. Then see if you can feel that in the outward expression of this movie. The Max Steiner score is almost non-stop and ... Read More
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"City for Conquest", a 1940 Warner Brothers release, is based on a pretentious novel published in the late thirties, a novel written to capture the heart of a great city, New York. The story traces the lives of a group of friends raised in poverty and striving in different ways to improve their lot. Cagney plays a good guy with no particular ambition other than to be happy. Sheridan plays his girlfriend, a ballroom dancer with aspirations to the big time. Arthur Kennedy plays Cagney's brother, a ... Read More
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It's a little silly having Ann Sheridan play the part of a gifted ballroom dancer, since she apparently can't put one foot in front of the other without losing her balance. Wasn't there anyone who else who could have played it? It doesn't really matter, for some deft stunt work and long distance shots give the bumpy illusion that while she's far away from the camera lens, she's Eleanor Powell, it's only when the camera is nearby she turns into a klutz. And actually I wouldn't trade her for Margot Fonteyn ... Read More
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