City for Conquest

• 6.8
• 1940-09-21
• 104 minutes mins

The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?

Starring:

James Cagney (Danny Kenny) Ann Sheridan (Peggy Nash) Frank Craven ('Old Timer') Donald Crisp (Scotty MacPherson) Frank McHugh ('Mutt') Arthur Kennedy (Eddie Kenny) George Tobias ('Pinky') Jerome Cowan ('Dutch') Elia Kazan ('Googi') Anthony Quinn (Murray Burns)

Director:

Anatole Litvak Jean Negulesco

Writer:

John Wexley