Taxi

Cagney and Loretta Young make a great team
In 1932, James Cagney was on a box office role in a series of cheaply made contemporary stories "torn from the headlines". In this one, he is a cab driver in New York, competing for business and always ready with his fists. Loretta Young is his leading lady, the improbable daughter of cabby, Guy Kibbee, who is jailed for shooting the guy who smashed his cab in order to run Kibbee out of business.

The film has the usual quota of slang and low lifes and moves at a fast clip under Roy Del Ruth's slick direction. The first half is probably the best before melodrama takes over but the real highlight is the unexpected rapport of the leads. Cagney and Young may seem an ill matched pair but at this stage of her career, Young was not only beautiful, but hot and she plays off Cagney's energy with a nonchalant and submissive air which is perfect. She is as riveting as Cagney and who could ignore those beautiful big eyes!

The DVD has been issued under the Warner's Archive...

Another great cagney picture
If your a jimmy cagney fan like me,you will love this movie,shot during the gangster movie years----been waiting for this one

early Loretta Young
If you don't appreciate looking at life in the early 1930s, if you don't like the music from the early 1930s, if you don't like the snazzy cars from the early 1930s, if you don't like seeing the feminine clothes and pretty fluffy soft & shorter hair on women in the early 1930s, if you aren't interested in seeing movie stars long dead who were very young and appealing in the early 1930s, don't buy this dvd. My parents were a really good-looking couple with 2 kids and one on the way, but they lived from hand to mouth during this period known as the Great Depression. In many respects this movie reminded me of them. I loved this movie the first time I saw it on Turner Classic Movies. When it became available on Amazon.com, I had to own it so I could view it every few months and think about my pretty mom. She looked so much like Loretta Young in the early 1930s - - not so much in later periods. Now you may understand why I gave it 5 stars. There are many other early 1930s movies with...

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