The Roaring Twenties
1939, Drama/Crime, 1h 44m
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Cast & Crew
Eddie Bartlett
George Hally
Jean Sherman
Panama Smith
Lloyd Hart
Danny Green
Critic Reviews for The Roaring Twenties
All Critics (14) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (14)
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Walsh unfolds the practical details of bootleggers' nocturnal maneuvers with quiet comedic flair alongside harrowing violence.
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An epochal rise-and-fall epic of the gangster cycle.
February 3, 2005 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review… -
Mr. Cagney, of the bull-calf brow... is as always a superb and a witty actor.
June 14, 2018 | Full Review… -
If Raoul Walsh didn't invent the Warners style, then he certainly brought it to its electric apex
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A powerful story of wartime bonds and their staying power through the most adverse of circumstances.
April 8, 2011 | Rating: 69/100 | Full Review… -
Dynamic, quintessential gangster film, wonderfully stylized by director Raoul Walsh,
July 17, 2009 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for The Roaring Twenties
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Jun 05, 2011Cagney AND Bogart. Enough said.Sean G Super Reviewer
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May 30, 2011Great 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 againBrody M Super Reviewer
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Sep 05, 2010This is a good movie about the 1920s, and a good gangster movie, with a good cast. I liked this movie.Aj V Super Reviewer
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Jun 14, 2009In 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
The Roaring Twenties Quotes
| Eddie Bartlett: | He can't be more than fifteen. |
| George Hally: | He'll never be sixteen. (after shooting a young German soldier) |
| George Hally: | He'll never be sixteen. [after shooting a young German soldier] |
| Policeman: | What did he do? |
| Panama Smith: | He used to be a big shot. |
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