That's the basic theme of City for Conquest, starring James Cagney and Ann Sheridan, from Aben Kandel's novel. Picture carries plenty of dramatic punch. To live in New York you have to have ...

James Cagney, the all-American tough guy who sang ... Torrid Zone,” 1940. ”City for Conquest,” 1941. ”The Strawberry Blonde,” 1941. ”The Bride Came C.O.D.” 1941.

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Two iconic gangster stars - James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart - once had ... The lawlessness that McCord brought to The Oklahoma Kid's take on the city of Tulsa drove the story of the movie ...

The two other films rely less on brutal images: Elia Kazan plays a mobster-as-swell in City for Conquest, but the focus is on Cagney’s riveting boxer in the gritty urban melodrama. And A Slight ...

He'll turn pro to bankroll his brother's dream of writing a symphonic paean to the teeming city where they both live ... he's blinded during a brutal 15-round welterweight title bout. James Cagney ...