Taxi! (1931)
December 29, 1931Release Date
Taxi! (1931)
December 29, 1931Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
James Cagney
Matt Nolan
Loretta Young
Sue Riley Nolan
George E. Stone
Skeets
Guy Kibbee
Mack 'Pop' Riley
Leila Bennett
Ruby
Dorothy Burgess
Marie Costa
David Landau
Buck Gerard
Ray Cooke
Danny Nolan
Nat Pendleton
Bull Martin (uncredited)
Joe Barton
Jewish Man with Cop (uncredited)
Robert Emmett O'Connor
Cop with Jewish Man (uncredited)
George Raft
William Kenny (uncredited)
Polly Walters
Danny's Date Polly (uncredited)
Evalyn Knapp
Actress in Movie Clip (uncredited)
Donald Cook
Actor in Movie Clip (uncredited)
Jesse De Vorska
Goldfarb (uncredited)
Berton Churchill
Judge West (uncredited)
George MacFarlane
Father Nulty (uncredited)
Hector V. Sarno
Mr. Lombardy (uncredited)
Matt McHugh
Joe Silva (uncredited)
Harry Tenbrook
Cab Driver Tom (uncredited)
Florence Turner
Trial Spectator (uncredited)
Roy Del Ruth
Director
Kenyon Nicholson
Theatre Play
Media.
Details.
Release DateDecember 29, 1931
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 9m
Content RatingNR
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Taxi! is a 1932 American pre-Code film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring James Cagney and Loretta Young.
The film includes a famous, and often misquoted, line with Cagney speaking to his brother's killer through a locked closet door: "Come out and take it, you dirty yellow-bellied rat, or I'll give it to you through the door!" This line has often been misquoted as "You dirty rat, you killed my brother".
To play his competitor in a ballroom dance contest, Cagney recommended his pal, fellow tough-guy-dancer George Raft, who was uncredited in the film. In a lengthy and memorable sequence, the scene culminates with Raft and his partner winning the dance contest against Cagney and Young, after which Cagney slugs Raft and knocks him down. As in The Public Enemy (1931), several scenes in Taxi! involved the use of live machine gun bullets. After a few of the bullets narrowly missed Cagney's head, he outlawed the practice in his future films.
In the film they see a fictitious Warner Bros. film at the cinema called Her Hour of Love in which Cagney cracks a joke about the film's leading man's appearance (an unbilled cameo by Warners contract player Donald Cook, who had played Cagney's brother in The Public Enemy) saying, "his ears are too big". Also advertised in the cinema lobby in the film is The Mad Genius, an actual film starring John Barrymore which was released the previous year by Warners.