The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties

1939 · 104 min · EN · 7.4 (206 votes)
Dir. Raoul Walsh · Starring James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Gladys George, Jeffrey Lynn, Frank McHugh · Music Heinz Roemheld

The land of the free gone wild! The heyday of the hotcha! The shock-crammed days G-men took ten whole years to lick!

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After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

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A grim, yet compelling dive into the Prohibition era's underbelly. It feels like a smoky backroom conversation, where ambition curdles into desperation and every deal carries the weight of impending doom. The city's shadows are as much a character as the men who inhabit them.

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