City for Conquest

(1940)

Drama

104 minutes

Directed by Anatole Litvak

Cast:

James Cagney as Danny Kenny

Ann Sheridan as Peggy 'Peg' Nash

Arthur Kennedy as Eddie Kenny

Frank Craven as Old Timer

Anthony Quinn as Murray Burns

Elia Kazan as Googi Zucco

This film is based on a novel by the same name.  Danny Kenny is a truck driver who becomes a fighter.  He finds success as a fighter and uses his earnings to pay for his brother Eddie's music composition career.  His girlfriend Peggy becomes a professional dancer and declines to marry him in order to further her career as a dancer.  Things turn bad for Danny after his opponent places rosin dust on his boxing gloves, leaving him slightly blind.  His brother ends up becoming a success and dedicates a symphony at Carnegie Hall to him, which he listens to on the radio.  Peggy is in that audience and runs back to Danny. 

City for Conquest - Trailer