Taxi

Taxi

Director: Roy Del Ruth Cast: James Cagney
James Cagney
, Loretta Young
Loretta Young
, Dorothy Burgess
Dorothy Burgess
, George E. Stone
George E. Stone
Roy Del Ruth
Taxi

Taxi

Director: Roy Del Ruth Cast: James Cagney
James Cagney
, Loretta Young
Loretta Young
, Dorothy Burgess
Dorothy Burgess
, George E. Stone
George E. Stone
Roy Del Ruth

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Overview

A huge box office success and a key film in James Cagney's rise to stardom, this drama stars Cagney as Matt Nolan, a gritty New York City cab driver who is being squeezed by a monopolistic taxi trust which uses force to run him and other independent cabbies away from the most profitable locations. Nolan joins forces with Pop Riley (George Kibbee), whose cab is smashed by a truck when he refuses to cooperate with the syndicate. Kibbee is sent to prison for shooting at the truck driver. Nolan is dating his daughter, Sue (Loretta Young), and they enter a Peabody dance contest at a local nightclub. Cagney dances on screen for the first time, and so does George Raft as Willie Kenny, another dancing tough guy who was a friend of Cagney's, who pushed Warner Bros. to give Cagney the role. Nolan marries Sue Riley, and she tries to get him to cool down. But the taxi trust goons kill his brother Danny (Ray Cooke), and Nolan goes on a rampage. In several filmed gun battles, live machine-gun bullets are used, as they were in Cagney's famed The Public Enemy. This is the last time Cagney allowed that. ~ Michael Betzold

Product Details

Release Date: 02/23/2012
UPC: 0883316450222
Original Release: 1932
Source: Warner Archives
Region Code: A
Presentation: [Full Frame]
Sound: [monaural]
Language: English
Time: 1:09:00
Sales rank: 32,314

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits
James Cagney Matt Nolan
Loretta Young Sue Reilly
Dorothy Burgess Marie Costa
George E. Stone Skeets
Guy Kibbee Pop Riley
David Landau Buck Gerard
Ray Cooke Danny Nolan
Leila Bennett Ruby
Matt McHugh Joe Silva
George MacFarlane Father Nulty
Polly Walters Polly
Nat Pendleton Truckdriver
Berton Churchill Judge West
Lee Phelps Onlooker
George Raft William `Willie' Kenny
Harry Tenbrook Cabby
Robert Emmett O'Connor Cop with Jewish Man,Cop with Jewish man
Russ Powell Dance Judge,Dance Judge
Eddie Fetherston Dance Judge
Ben Taggart Cop
Hector V. Sarno Monument Maker
Aggie Herring Cleaning Woman
Donald Cook Movie Star
Evalyn Knapp Movie Star,Movie Star
Cotton Club Orchestra Themselves
Eddie Fetherstone Dance Judge
Jesse de Vorska Actor
Leo Forbstein Composer

Technical Credits
Roy Del Ruth Director
Robert Lord Producer
Kubec Glasmon Screenwriter
John Bright Screenwriter
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