The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties
by Lloyd French, Raoul Walsh, Tex Avery

The Roaring Twenties
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Actor: Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, June Allyson, Priscilla Lane, The Harrison Sisters
Director: Lloyd French, Raoul Walsh, Tex Avery
Brand: Warner Brothers
Writer: Cyrus Wood
Writer: Dave Monahan
Writer: Eddie Forman
Writer: Jerry Wald
Writer: Mark Hellinger
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 106 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-01-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video

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Movie Review: Pure class from Cagney!
Summary: 5 Stars

This movie shows Cagney getting pulled into a life of crime, and we see how he goes from a regular, likeable Joe into a ruthless gangster. It's a great story and Bogart gives a great turn as Cagney's partner in crime. This is a brilliant gangster movie and pure entertainment. Great stuff!

Summary of The Roaring Twenties

Three World War I buddies clash in a vicious bootlegging racket. Based on a Mark Hellinger story.Running Time: 107 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA UPC:?012569690820
Three doughboys--played by James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, and Jeffrey Lynn--meet in a foxhole in Europe just as World War?I is ending. When they return to the States, they are forgotten men, and after Eddie (Cagney) tries in vain to get his old job back, his pal Danny (Frank McHugh) lets him drive his cab at night. A fare asks unwitting Eddie to deliver bootleg liquor, but Prohibition is in full swing and Eddie is arrested and thrown in the slammer. Gallant Eddie won't rat out the woman to whom he delivered the hooch, speakeasy owner Panama Smith, (whiskey-voiced Gladys George). She bails him out and carries a torch for him for the rest of the movie, but he only has eyes for sweet little Jean (Priscilla Lane). Panama introduces Eddie to a life of crime, staking him in the bootleg business. Eddie's grit and bluster suit him perfectly for this existence, and he's soon a success, so he hires Army buddy Lloyd (Lynn) as consigliere, then teams up with George (Bogart), a liquor smuggler who plays a much dirtier game. Racketeering and murder are his methods, and he drags Eddie down with him. When Prohibition ends and the stock market crashes, Eddie loses everything and takes to the bottle himself.

The film is a bit schematic. The three stars are archetypes: Cagney the good boy gone bad, Bogart the bad boy who stays bad, and Lynn the good boy who stays good. Still, it packs quite an emotional wallop--Cagney shows extraordinary range, going from green boy to swaggering gangster to broken man, and Bogart has rarely seemed more purely evil than he does here. He kills for the sheer pleasure of it; it's truly frightening to see. The final scene is a stunning shootout between Cagney and Bogart. With lesser actors this film could be pure hokum. With Cagney and Bogart, it attains catharsis. Laura Mirsky

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