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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
134 Views


...writes a symphony that

sets a whole town on its ear.

Well, I guess we ain't got no squawk coming.

Looks like everybody from

Forsyth Street's doing all right.

Oh, Danny.

What's the matter, Peg?

What are you crying for?

You just came to visit an old pal.

Aren't you glad to see me?

I can't tell you how much, Danny.

Are you all right?

Sure, I'm better than that.

I got a soft touch here.

Keeps me out in the air.

I sell a hundred papers and make a buck.

Besides, I got a lot of good

customers and they keep me busy.

I don't get much time for moping.

Then you are all right.

Oh, sure, I'm fine.

I still got my two eyes and

they're getting better all the time.

That's what the doctor said. A

year, maybe a little bit longer.

I can wait. Used to waiting.

Besides, I can always

see anything I wanna see.

I saw you, Peg.

Danny, if I could help now, I'd do anything.

Well, you have.

Look, I never told nobody this...

...but...

...I always knew that

someday you'd pass by here...

...and you'd see me.

Always knew that...

...because...

- Yes, Danny?

Because you were always my girl.

That's right, ain't it, Peg?

Always, Danny. Always.

Yes, brother, it's beautiful.

Didn't I tell you there was

a heart beating in the city?

I've been all over. East Side, West Side...

...down in the subways,

up in the elevators...

...flat with the river. And I report success.

There's a heart beating in the city.

You wont find it in the timetables,

and you'll never see it advertised.

But take it from me, brother...

...there's love in New York.

And I know...

...because I got clothes on my back.

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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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