(Minor Spoilers) Yiddish-speaking and two-fisted Irish New York taxi driver Matt Nolan ,James Cagney, learns the hard and deadly way that violence isn't the answer to solving one's problems.
With the Consolitated Cab Company trying to run all the independent taxi drivers out of business the company's hired hoodlum Buck Gerard, David Landau, tries to get Pop Riley, Guy Kibbee, off his corner by threatening him.
Pop refuses to leave and later one of Gerard's thugs truck diver Bull Martin,Nat Pendleton,rams his truck into Pop's cab totaling it. Pop mad as hell tries to slug Bull but is knocked down and then pulls a gun from his pocket and shoots Bull dead. Given ten years behind bars poor Pop doesn't last a week in Osssining, the State Pen, and dies a broken man.
Pop's daughter Sue, Loretta Young,is so hurt over his death and what caused it, his losing his cool, that at a taxi union meeting she gives a level-headed talk that's opposite the rip-roaring speech that Matt gave, against those who caused Pop to end up behind bars and later dead,that he want's to belt her right in the kisser for giving it. Matt soon starts to fall in love with Sue and later they get married.
After the wedding at City Hall the newlyweds go uptown to the popular "Cottonpickers Club" to celebrate only to run into Gerard, who's dead drunk. Exchanging words Matt lays out the nasty Gerard after he made a very insulting remark about Sue with a quick right. Matt's kid brother Danny, Ray Cook, jumped in between the two to breakup the fight only to end up getting a knife in his back by Gerard.
At the local hospital young Danny never regained consciousness and died leaving Matt hurt bitter and vengeful to make Gerard, who fled the scene of his crime, pay for what he did. Sue remembering what happened to her dad due to his loss of control doesn't want the same to happen to her husband Matt and tries to prevent him from killing Gerard and to let the police and the court do the job of bringing him to justice.
Trying to get Gerard away from Matt's retribution Sue together with Gerard's moll Marie, Dorthy Burgess,try to get him out of the country before Matt gets his hands on him in order to prevent Matt from becoming a murderer by offing Gerard.
Early James Cagney and Loretta Young movie that tell's and show's it's audience that using one's brains is far more effective then using one's fists to try to make things right. it was a lesson that Matt needed to make him realize how destructive he was, to both his friends and enemies, in his harsh and Neanderthal ways of doing things.
Look for a young George Raft in the movie as a competing dancer, with his girlfriend, to Matt & Sue at a local dance contest. Raft win the contest only to get belted by a sore losing and angry Matt.
With the Consolitated Cab Company trying to run all the independent taxi drivers out of business the company's hired hoodlum Buck Gerard, David Landau, tries to get Pop Riley, Guy Kibbee, off his corner by threatening him.
Pop refuses to leave and later one of Gerard's thugs truck diver Bull Martin,Nat Pendleton,rams his truck into Pop's cab totaling it. Pop mad as hell tries to slug Bull but is knocked down and then pulls a gun from his pocket and shoots Bull dead. Given ten years behind bars poor Pop doesn't last a week in Osssining, the State Pen, and dies a broken man.
Pop's daughter Sue, Loretta Young,is so hurt over his death and what caused it, his losing his cool, that at a taxi union meeting she gives a level-headed talk that's opposite the rip-roaring speech that Matt gave, against those who caused Pop to end up behind bars and later dead,that he want's to belt her right in the kisser for giving it. Matt soon starts to fall in love with Sue and later they get married.
After the wedding at City Hall the newlyweds go uptown to the popular "Cottonpickers Club" to celebrate only to run into Gerard, who's dead drunk. Exchanging words Matt lays out the nasty Gerard after he made a very insulting remark about Sue with a quick right. Matt's kid brother Danny, Ray Cook, jumped in between the two to breakup the fight only to end up getting a knife in his back by Gerard.
At the local hospital young Danny never regained consciousness and died leaving Matt hurt bitter and vengeful to make Gerard, who fled the scene of his crime, pay for what he did. Sue remembering what happened to her dad due to his loss of control doesn't want the same to happen to her husband Matt and tries to prevent him from killing Gerard and to let the police and the court do the job of bringing him to justice.
Trying to get Gerard away from Matt's retribution Sue together with Gerard's moll Marie, Dorthy Burgess,try to get him out of the country before Matt gets his hands on him in order to prevent Matt from becoming a murderer by offing Gerard.
Early James Cagney and Loretta Young movie that tell's and show's it's audience that using one's brains is far more effective then using one's fists to try to make things right. it was a lesson that Matt needed to make him realize how destructive he was, to both his friends and enemies, in his harsh and Neanderthal ways of doing things.
Look for a young George Raft in the movie as a competing dancer, with his girlfriend, to Matt & Sue at a local dance contest. Raft win the contest only to get belted by a sore losing and angry Matt.