The Roaring Twenties

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Cast

James Cagney
as Eddie Bartlett

Priscilla Lane
as Jean Sherman

Humphrey Bogart
as George Hally

Gladys George
as Panama Smith

Jeffrey Lynn
as Lloyd Hart

Frank McHugh
as Danny Green

Elizabeth Risdon
as Mrs. Sherman

Paul Kelly
as Nick Brown

Elisabeth Risdon
as Mrs. Sherman

Edward Keane
as Pete Henderson

Joe Sawyer
as Sgt. Pete Jones

Abner Biberman
as Lefty

George Humbert
as Luigi, Proprietor

Clay Clement
as Bramfield, Broker

Donald Kerr
as Bobby Hart

Max Wagner
as Lefty

Ray Cooke
as Orderly

Vera Lewis
as Mrs. Gray

Murray Alper
as 1st Mechanic

Dick Wessel
as 2nd Mechanic

Joseph Crehan
as Fletcher, Foreman

Norman Willis
as Bootlegger

Robert Elliott
as 1st Officer

Eddy Chandler
as 2nd Officer

John Hamilton
as Judge

Elliott Sullivan
as Jailer

Pat O'Malley
as Jailer

Arthur Loft
as Proprietor of still

Eddie Acuff
as Cabdriver

Al Hill
as Ex-con

Raymond Bailey
as Ex-Con

Lew Harvey
as Ex-Con

Joe Devlin
as Order Taker

Jeffrey Sayre
as Order Taker

Wade Boteler
as Policeman

Paul Phillips
as Mike

Al Bridge
as Captain

Nat Carr
as Waiter

George Meeker
as Masters

Bert Hanlon
as Piano player

Ann Codee
as Saleswoman

Jack Norton
as Drunk

Maurice Costello

Alan Bridge
as Captain

Fred Graham
as Henchman

James Blaine
as Doorman

James Flavin

Harry C. Bradley
as Couple

Lottie Williams
as Couple

Milton Kibbee
as Taxi Driver

Creighton Hale
as Customer

Cyril Ring
as Charlie the Clerk

Raymond Harvey
as Ex-con

Harry Hollingsworth

Sam Harris
as Man in Club

John Deering
as Commentator

John Harron
as Soldier

Robert Dobson
as Lieutenant

Frank Mayo

Stuart Holmes
as Man for Turkish Bath

Philip Morris
as Policeman

Oscar O'Shea

Emory Parnell

Lee Phelps
as Bailiff

John Ridgely
as Cabdriver

Billy Wayne

Frank Wilcox

Lotta Williams
as Couple

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Audience Reviews for The Roaring Twenties

• Jun 05, 2011

  Cagney AND Bogart. Enough said.
  Sean G Super Reviewer
• May 30, 2011

  Great flick with Cagney as a nobody who becomes a gangster & becomes somebody & then back to being nobody.Roaring Twenties might not be as good as Angels With Dirty Faces but it comes close.Bogart & Cagney are great together once again
  Brody M Super Reviewer
• Sep 05, 2010

  This is a good movie about the 1920s, and a good gangster movie, with a good cast. I liked this movie.
  Aj V Super Reviewer
• Jun 14, 2009

  In 1919, in the end of the World War I, the G.I. Eddie Bartlett meets George Hally and the student of Law School Lloyd Hart in a trench and sooner the war ends. Back in USA, Eddie is not able to find a job and is sustained by his great friend Danny Green, who offers Eddie to share his cab and make some money working as cab driver. Eddie decides to visit Jean Sherman, who had corresponded with him during the war and is crazy about him, and for his surprise, she is a teenager. In 1920, with the 18th Amendment, the Volstead Act is in force, beginning the period of the unpopular Prohibition. Eddie accidentally meets the owner of a speakeasy Panama Smith, they become close friends and she introduces him in bootlegging of liquor. Eddie becomes rich, meets Jean Sherman again and falls for her. He also raises a profitable partnership with George and Lloyd is hired as his lawyer. In 1924, bootlegging has a grown from individual effort to a big business associated with corruption, violence and murder, and the light machine gun Tommy becomes an important tool in this business. Lloyd and Jean fall in love for each other, and Eddie has a great deception. Later, on 19 October 1929 with the Black Tuesday, Eddie looses all his fortune, and when the Prohibition falls after thirteen years in force, he returns to the activity of cab driver. On the Christmas Eve, when he meets Jean again as a client of his cab, his life is leaded to a tragic end.
  †HorrorFan† . Super Reviewer

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