Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 11
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 0
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Release Date: Jan 1, 1939 Wide
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Based upon an idea by Broadway columnist Mark Hellinger, The Roaring Twenties opens during World War I as doughboys Eddie Bartlett (James Cagney), Lloyd Hart (Jeffrey Lynn), and George Hally (Humphrey Bogart) discuss what they will do when the war is over. Bartlett wants to go back to repairing cabs, and Hart yearns to be a lawyer, but it becomes clear that Hally has less reputable plans in mind for himself. Come the end of the war, things are not as easy for veterans like Bartlett as they
Jan 1, 1939 Wide
Jan 25, 2005
All Critics (15) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (12) | Rotten (0) | DVD (8)
A powerful story of wartime bonds and their staying power through the most adverse of circumstances.
Dynamic, quintessential gangster film, wonderfully stylized by director Raoul Walsh,
It has a good cast and the production values were first-class, allowing it to rise slightly above its hackneyed script.
One of the last great gangster films of the 1930s. Cagney brings a touch of poignancy to the hood who time has passed by, and Gladys George is splendid as Panama.
Walsh's fast-paced film makes its own case.
An epochal rise-and-fall epic of the gangster cycle.
The Roaring Twenties (1939) is action director Raoul Walsh's first gangster film. This newsreel-like, semi-documentary film,
Not my favorite Cagney, Bogart or Walsh, but still a solid gangster flick.Worth seeing for the historical narrative montages.
May 5, 2007Super Reviewer
This is a good movie about the 1920s, and a good gangster movie, with a good cast. I liked this movie.
September 5, 2010Super Reviewer
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