Taxi

TAXI is one of my favorite films. It stars Loretta Young and James Cagney, and they have so much chemistry, and I wish that they had made more films together!!! The script is so enjoyable with love, comedy, drama , music , dancing which is always a treat with Cagney, etc. Do yourself a favor and don't miss this film !!!

Taxi! is a good crime melodrama. James Cagney, Loretta Young, and George E. Stone (“the Runt” in Boston Blackie movies) are excellent, and David Landau plays a good villain, as always. I’m not bothered, as some are, by Leila Bennett’s portrayal of the ever-chattering waitress at Goldfarb’s Fish Grotto who says “I don’t like fish.”But Cagney’s supposedly loveable hot-head falls a bit short of loveable and Young’s character is way too forgiving. Bad decisions are normal in crime films, but here they’re sometimes unconvincing.The dance contest, featuring George Raft, gives the stars a chance to dance and shows how easily Cagney’s character loses his temper, but it might have been given further significance in the plot. The cars are historically interesting, as are views of Times Square, such as one showing the large neon advertisement for Pepsodent toothpaste, which was there from 1930 to 1933, and Loew’s State Theater, there from 1921 to 1987 in various forms. Unfortunately, a performance by black singers and musicians is staged in a plantation-like atmosphere at the “Cotton Pickers Club,” a fictional version of the historical Cotton Club.

Good movie with Jamrs Cagney & Loretta Young! Loved hearing him speak Yiddish!A good movie with an unforeseen twist! Saw it about 3x!

If you don't appreciate looking at life in the early 1930s, if you don't like the music from the early 1930s, if you don't like the snazzy cars from the early 1930s, if you don't like seeing the feminine clothes and pretty fluffy soft & shorter hair on women in the early 1930s, if you aren't interested in seeing movie stars long dead who were very young and appealing in the early 1930s, don't buy this dvd. My parents were a really good-looking couple with 2 kids and one on the way, but they lived from hand to mouth during this period known as the Great Depression. In many respects this movie reminded me of them. I loved this movie the first time I saw it on Turner Classic Movies. When it became available on Amazon.com, I had to own it so I could view it every few months and think about my pretty mom. She looked so much like Loretta Young in the early 1930s - - not so much in later periods. Now you may understand why I gave it 5 stars. There are many other early 1930s movies with Loretta Young I already have and enjoy; most notably, "Midnight Mary" "Employees Entrance" and "Man's Castle." She was quite a good little actress for being only 19 and 20 years old in 1932/1933.

I'm not commenting on the move, just the DVD quality.Well, a little on the movie. It's a typical James Cagney film, which means if you like him you'll like this. Not one of his best, in my opinion - personally I am partial to "Strawberry Blonde" and "Yankee Doodle Dandy" - but I'm glad I own it.Just note that this is not what I would call a restoration. Image quality is fine, comparable to what you'd see if you watched it on TV. But, having recently watched restorations of "Key Largo" and "Casablanca", I couldn't help but be a little disappointed. The restored films jump off the screen - they are so sharp and clear they could have been made yesterday. It didn't diminish my enjoyment of the movie, but it didn't enhance it either.

Looking for something to watch on my new ipad I came across this early Cagney flick, watched it in one sitting, very entertaining as a story and fascinating from the standpoint of Cagney's career. He plays a cabbie for a small company fighting the dirty tactics of the dominant cab company in NYC. As always he is the compelling character in every scene. Tough sometimes, charming sometimes.Beautiful Loretta Young holds her own as Cagney's "girl".A little "fun fact": Cagney speaks fluent Yiddish in his opening scene. I lived for many years in Switzerland where "Swiss German" is spoken. Well I was shocked to hear Cagney speaking what I thought was Swiss German! Who knew? But found out it was Yiddish which is very close to Swiss German.Cagney also displays his dancing talents with a mean Foxtrot, and a short tap dance.Enjoyed the story and acting. One of the few Cagney movies I didn't see on TV as a kid.

This movie—about tough-guy cabbie Cagney whose explosive temper takes him to the brink of murder—is dated and dull. Sure, Cagney is brimming with charm, life, and energy. We even see him enter a dance contest and we get to enjoy his grave and power as a dancer. And we see Cagney speaking fluent Yiddish to a customer who apparently wants a ride to Ellis Island. But the recurrent “joke” of Cagney threatening his young bride with violence, and even slapping her and pushing her down, quickly wears very thin. Loretta Young, ethereal and with a posh accent, seems to come from another world, and we wonder what this nice-mannered young woman can see in this rough, impulsive, threatening young man.Ah well. Such was the Hollywood version of a Dead End kid all grown up and his long-suffering woman.I’m donating my copy to the library.

This is a movie that is cute with a little of everything in it ..Gangster ,drama, romance ,a little comedy and a feel good ending . my only wish was that they would remaster it ..to make it better ..these old movies are so much better then the movies they make now ...I watch a lot of TCM , if not for them ..most of these movies would go unseen by a lot of people . Glad I was able to get a DVD of this movie .