Big City (1937 film)
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Duration Country United States | 6.4/10 IMDb Genre Drama Language English | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date September 3, 1937 (1937-09-03) Cast (Anna Benton), (Joe Benton), (Sophie Sloane), (Robert, the Mayor), (Mr. Beecher), (Mike Edwards) Similar movies Blackhat , Taxi Tehran , Ghostbusters , Collateral , Night on Earth , Cosmopolis Tagline So much of happiness and heart-break...drama and romance...set to the tune of a big city...glorified by two great stars...it will bring glowing memories for years to come! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Big City is a 1937 drama film directed by Frank Borzage and starring Spencer Tracy. The film was also released as Skyscraper Wilderness.
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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.
The film also casts a number of popular sports figures including Jack Dempsey, Jim Thorpe, and James J. Jeffries in minor comic roles.
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Box office
According to MGM records the film earned $906,000 in the US and Canada and $695,000 elsewhere resulting in a profit of $462,000.
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Big City (1937 film) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA
Big City (1937 film) IMDb Big City (1937 film) themoviedb.org
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