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Taxi (Full Screen)

Starring: James Cagney & Loretta Young Director: Roy Del Ruth

Independent cabbie Matt Nolan is primed to let his fists and handgun deliver payback after a big taxi firm uses intimidation and violence to squeeze out small-timers.

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Item Number: WAC 645022D

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Rated: Not Rated
Run Time: 1 hours, 9 minutes
Video: Black & White
Released: March 9, 2012
Originally Released: 1932
Label: Warner Bros.
Encoding: Region 1; USA & Canada
Aspect Ratio: Full Frame
Audio:

PCM Mono - English

Performers, Cast and Crew:

Starring		James Cagney & Loretta Young
Performer		George E. Stone, Guy Kibbee, Leila Bennett, Dorothy Burgess, David Landau & Ray Cooke
Directed by		Roy Del Ruth
Art Direction by		Esdras Hartley
Produced by		Robert Lord

Description by OLDIES.com:

"Come out and take it, you dirty yellow-bellied rat...." Independent cabbie Matt Nolan is primed to let his fists and handgun deliver payback after a big taxi firm uses intimidation and violence to squeeze out small-timers. James Cagney plays Nolan, a role suited to his pugnacious, post-The Public Enemy persona. Ramming rival cabs that have hemmed him into a too-tight parking spot, slugging the hoofer (George Raft) who bested him in a dance contest, tracking down the killer of his brother, Cagney shows why he was the era's "terrier of the screen" (Mordaunt Hall, The New York Times). Loretta Young costars as the femme who tries to tame Nolan.

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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.

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OLDIES.com Sales Rank: 28,110
UPC: 883316450222
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