Taxi! (1932) on Netflix
Matt Nolan, a young cab driver, urges independent drivers to resist Consolidated Cab, the rival outfit trying to dominate the taxi trade. Waitress Sue Riley answers with a plea for peace.
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Plot summary
Pop Riley, a veteran driver for the Independent Cab Company, keeps his stand outside the cafe where his daughter Sue works, and refuses to give it up to Consolidated Cab, the rival outfit trying to dominate the taxi trade. A henchman from Consolidated wrecks his taxicab, and Pop shoots the man and is sentenced to prison. Sue, a waitress, is asked by Matt Nolan, a scrappy young driver, to lend moral support to the independent drivers, who face the same intimidation. Matt speaks to the other drivers and calls on them to act; Sue answers with a plea for the men to stay peaceful, which angers him. Matt later develops romantic intentions toward Sue, and the two begin dating.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Taxi! (1932)
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- Several scenes in Taxi! were shot with live machine-gun bullets, as in The Public Enemy. After a few of the bullets narrowly missed James Cagney's head, he refused to use real bullets in his later films.
- Taxi! includes a famous line James Cagney speaks 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!" It is often misquoted as "You dirty rat, you killed my brother".
- To play his competitor in a ballroom dance contest, James Cagney recommended his friend George Raft, who appears uncredited in Taxi!.
