City for conquest
2006
DVD
A melodrama about an aspiring prizefighter who meets with disaster after he is blinded in the ring, then devotes himself to fostering the musical career of brother.
Item Details
Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 104 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- fullscreen
- DVD
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- monochrome
Target Audience Note: Canadian Home Video Rating: NR
Notes:
- From the novel by Aben Kandel
- Special features: "Warner night at the movies 1940" short subjects gallery: vintage newsreel; Oscar®-nominated* short "Service with the colors," cartoon "Stage fright," trailers of "City for conquest" and "The fighting 69th"; featurette "Molls and dolls: the women of gangster films"; commentary soundtrack by Richard Schickel; "Breakdowns of 1940": studio blooper reel; audio-only bonus: Radio show with Alice Faye and Robert Preston
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1940
- Directors of photography, Sol Polito, James Wong Howe ; editor, William Holmes ; musical director, Leo F. Forbstein ; music, Max Steiner
- James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Frank Craven, Donald Crisp, Frank McHugh, Arthur Kennedy, George Tobias, Jerome Cowan, Elia Kazan, Anthony Quinn, Lee Patrick
- DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital mono., dual layer
- In English with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired
LCCN: be2006016653
Publisher or Distributor Number:
- 79177
- 79177
Control Number: 3296937
UPC: 012569791770
Publisher: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2006]Series:
Subjects:
- Boxers (Sports) -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
- Boxing -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
- Brothers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
Genre:
- Feature films.
- Gangster films.
- Melodramas (Drama)
- Sports films.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Authors:
- Cagney, James, 1899-1986.
- Cowan, Jerome, 1897-1972.
- Craven, Frank, 1875-1945.
- Crisp, Donald, 1880-1974.
- First National Pictures, Inc.
- Kandel, Aben, 1896-1993. City for conquest.
- Kazan, Elia.
- Kennedy, Arthur, 1914-1990.
- Litvak, Anatole, 1902-1974.
- McHugh, Frank, 1899-1981.
- Patrick, Lee, 1901-1982.
- Quinn, Anthony, 1915-2001.
- Sheridan, Ann, 1915-1967.
- Steiner, Max, 1888-1971.
- Tobias, George, 1901-1980.
- Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967)
- Warner Home Video (Firm)
- Warner, Jack L., 1892-1978.
- Wexley, John, 1907-1985.