71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Big City / BIG CITY

Frank Borzage
     80 m.
Synopsis
New York taxi drivers are split into two groups: those who work for themselves and those in the employment of the Comet Cab Company. Self-employed Joe Benton is married to a Romanian woman called Anna who had arrived in the States three years earlier with her brother Paul. Comet Cabs hire some thugs to attack the drivers earning their own livings and their ringleader hides a bomb in a box sent by Anna to her brother, with the upshot of the latter's death and destruction of the surrounding premises. Anna is accused of the crime and the Mayor orders repatriation of the young, and by now pregnant, woman.
Director
Frank Borzage
Screenplay
Dore Schary, Hugo Butler
Photography
Joseph Ruttenberg, Clyde De Vinna
Edition
Frederick Y. Smith
Music
William Axt
Cast
Spencer Tracy (Joe Benton), Luise Rainer (Anna Benton), Charley Grapewin (Mayor of New York), Janet Beecher (Sophie Sloane)
Running Time
80 m.
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