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.
Acting
Rainer's luminous warmth against Tracy's granite tenderness.
Direction
Borzage finds poetry in tenement windows and taxi garages.
Director
Frank Borzage
Luise Rainer
Anna Benton
Spencer Tracy
Joe Benton
Charley Grapewin
Robert, the Mayor
Janet Beecher
Sophie Sloane
Eddie Quillan
Mike Edwards
Victor Varconi
Paul Roya
Oscar O'Shea
John C. Andrews
Helen Troy
Lola Johnson
William Demarest
Mr. Beecher
John Arledge
Buddy
Irving Bacon
Jim Sloane
Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Danny Devlin
Regis Toomey
Fred Hawkins
Edgar Dearing
Tom Reilley
Paul Harvey
District Attorney Gilbert
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Rainer won her second consecutive Oscar the year before; this was her follow-up, proving she wasn't just a one-year wonder.
Shot during the last gasp of 1930s labor militancy before the Taft-Hartley backlash—its strike solidarity hit different then.
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