Spencer Tracy and Luise Rainer star as Joe and Anna Benton. Theirs is a wonderful love story within this picture. The setting is New York City of the mid-1930s, with a taxi war between a big cab company (Comet, in the movie) and independent taxi owners. Joe and Anna are married, very happy and much in love.
Plot. Joe Benton ( Spencer Tracy) and his wife Anna ( Luise Rainer) are suspected of starting a taxi war. Although innocent, they are blamed for everything that has happened and the officials demand that Anna be deported from the United States. While trying to prove their innocence, the couple feels forced to hide.
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