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City for Conquest
film by Litvak [1940]
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discussed in biography
- In Anatole Litvak: The Hollywood years
Litvak’s next film was City for Conquest (1940), a gritty melodrama, with James Cagney as a boxer who sacrifices everything so that his younger brother (Arthur Kennedy) can continue his career as a musician; Sheridan was cast as Cagney’s girlfriend, and Elia Kazan appeared in a small but colourful…
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role of Kazan
- In Elia Kazan: Films of the 1940s
…films directed by Anatole Litvak, City for Conquest (1940) and Blues in the Night (1941). In 1945 the Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation hired Kazan to direct his first commercial feature, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, from the best-selling novel by Betty Smith. It was a high-profile project with which to…
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