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Synopsis: Cagney is Danny Kenny, a truck driver who enters "the fight game" and Sheridan plays his girlfriend, Peggy. Danny realizes success in the ring and uses his income to pay for his brother Eddie's music composition career, while Peggy goes on to become a professional dancer. When Peggy turns down Danny's marriage proposal for her dancing career, Danny, who wanted to quit the fight game, continues on & is blinded by rosin dust purposely placed on the boxing gloves of his opponent during a fight. His former manager finances a newsstand for the now semi-blind Danny. The movie ends with brother Eddie becoming a successful composer and dedicates a symphony at Carnegie Hall to his brother who listens to the concert on the radio from his newsstand. Peggy, now down on her luck, but in the audience at Carnegie, rushes to Danny at his newsstand where they reunite. The movie is based on a novel of the same name.
Genre: Drama, Music, Sport
Production: WARNER BROTHERS PICTURES
 
IMDB:
7.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
80%
APPROVED
Year:
1940
104 min
116 Views


should give me change. Fifty cents.

What about the two dollars from last month?

- Mama said it should be just on account.

- Say, Danny, got any change?

- How much you need?

- Half a buck.

There it is.

- Give this to Mama with my compliments.

- Okay.

Oh, yeah. And Mama says when you

gonna give me a piece to learn?

She says to tell you she

likes "The Blue Danube."

So do I. That's why you're

not gonna play it yet, Sydney.

Okay.

I don't know why I keep giving that kid

lessons. He throws the piano out of tune.

You get it from Sydney. I

get it from the traffic cops.

- How's your music

coming, Eddie? - So-so.

Look, Danny.

I wanted to ask you if there's a

chance of getting a job with your boss.

- For who?

- Me.

- You?

- Yeah.

- Driving a truck?

- Or a helper, till I got a license.

Are you nuts? Another year,

you'll be through music school.

- I'm through right now.

- What?

- What about your scholarship?

- Yeah, they cut it in half.

- Gotta pay the rest in cash.

- What happened?

Like everything else, donations

slowing up, so they cut expenses.

It's no use, Danny. I've got

to start making my own way.

But when will you find time

to work on your own music?

- I'll find it sometime at night.

- You'll be all worn out.

Besides, you might even hurt your hands

shoving those cases around on the truck.

- How much you gonna need for that school?

- Hundred and fifty bucks.

- And it might just as well be 150,000.

- Look here, Eddie.

I don't wanna hear any more talk like that.

- You're gonna finish up.

- Well, I wanna finish, Danny...

...and I wanna finish my own music too.

You know I've been

working on it every minute.

Here, look. I've even

got a new idea on it now.

To make it into a symphony of New York.

The song of the magic

isle, a city for conquest.

A full symphony of it, with all

its proud, passionate beauty...

...and all of its sordid ugliness

and of its great wealth and power...

...and its everlasting hunger.

And of its teeming seven millions

and its barren loneliness.

Here, listen, Danny. It starts

with that part that you like.

That part that I call "The East River"...

...with the rumbling el over Allen

Street with its crowded gutters and slums.

With all of its mounting, shrieking jungle

- cries for life and sun.

And then carrying on the theme

up to the towering skyscrapers...

...and the story of all those who

tried to scale their dizzy heights...

...but crash, frustrated and

broken, to the concrete pavements.

And then of those few who

finally reach the top...

...only to find out that above them

are still the unattainable stars.

Gee, Eddie, you have ideas like that

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John Wexley

John Wexley (1907–85) was an American writer, best known for his play The Last Mile. more…

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