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  1. The Big City
    1937 · Drama · 1h 20m

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  1. United States. Language. English. Budget. $621,000 [1] Box office. $1,601,000 [1] Big City is a 1937 American drama film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Luise Rainer and Spencer Tracy. The film was also released as Skyscraper Wilderness.

  2. Big City: Directed by Frank Borzage, George B. Seitz. With Luise Rainer, Spencer Tracy, Charley Grapewin, Janet Beecher. To avoid a taxi war, city officials blame a gang bombing on driver Joe Benton's wife Anna and put her on a ship to deport her.

    • (647)
    • Drama, Romance
    • Frank Borzage, George B. Seitz
    • 1937-09-03
  3. 1.37 : 1. Film Length. 8 reels. New York cabbie Joe Benton and his Russian-born wife Anna have a loving marriage, despite their constant teasing. Joe and Anna's brother, Paul Roya, are both independent cab drivers who are at odds with the large Comet Cab Company. After Paul is beaten up by some Comet cabbies, he decides to be a "double agent ...

    • Frank Borzage, Lew Borzage, George B. Seitz
    • Luise Rainer
  4. The Big City. A deadly misunderstanding lands upstanding cab driver John Benton (Spencer Tracy) and his Russian-born wife, Anna (Luise Rainer), in the midst of a war between a mob-connected taxi ...

    • (5)
    • Frank Borzage
    • Drama
    • Spencer Tracy
  5. Popular reviews. "Big City" starts off with Borzage replicating the same premise that started "7th Heaven" - a person under suspicion from the police is vouched for unexpectedly by a complete stranger, who says they are married then the pair get into a cab together. Except here Borzage flips the trope onto its head by revealing the pair (Joe ...

    • (244)
    • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
    • Frank Borzage
  6. Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies. Frank Borzage. Director.

  7. Summaries. To avoid a taxi war, city officials blame a gang bombing on driver Joe Benton's wife Anna and put her on a ship to deport her. The mayor is speaker at a boxers' banquet where Joe pleads for them to go with him to the wharf and rescue Anna (about to deliver their baby) from the ship. — Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>.

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