Big City (1937)

Directors

Frank Borzage, George B. Seitz

Cast

Luise Rainer, Spencer Tracy, Charley Grapewin, Janet Beecher, Eddie Quillan, Victor Varconi, Oscar O'Shea, Helen Troy, William Demarest, John Arledge, Irving Bacon, Guinn Williams, Regis Toomey, Edgar Dearing, Grace Ford, Alice White, Clem Bevans, Andrew Tombes, Paul Harvey

The story

In New York City, taxi cab driver Joe Benton is happily married to Anna, an immigrant, but they are caught up in the ongoing taxi "war" between an association of independent cabbies like Joe and a corporate firm that is using strong-arm tactics to dominate the trade. Following a birthday party at which Anna announces that she is pregnant, she asks a friend to take a package with a raincoat to the garage where her brother works. An explosion occurs at the garage, and an attendant is shot by one of the corporate thugs.

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