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The Roaring Twenties
After World War I, friends Eddie (James Cagney), George (Humphrey Bogart) and Lloyd (Jeffrey Lynn) return to America with ambitions for the future. The trio attempts to make a living; the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
29 December 1904, Twin Valley, Minnesota, USA
December 5, 1892 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
November 30, 1874 in Rochelle, Illinois, USA
5 March 1904, Brooklyn, New York, USA
September 21, 1903 in New Milford, Connecticut, USA
July 13, 1882 in Portland, Oregon, USA
12 March 1894, Wilton Junction [now Wilton], Iowa, USA
May 27, 1903 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
November 23, 1898 in Sherman, Texas, USA
5 November 1892, Edinburgh (Christian County), Illinois, USA
29 July 1883, Predappio, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
23 May 1898, Homestead, Pennsylvania, USA
June 02, 2006
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.
July 17, 2009
Dynamic, quintessential gangster film, wonderfully stylized by director Raoul Walsh,
January 01, 2000
The Roaring Twenties (1939) is action director Raoul Walsh's first gangster film. This newsreel-like, semi-documentary film,
April 14, 2013
If Raoul Walsh didn't invent the Warners style, then he certainly brought it to its electric apex
April 08, 2011
A powerful story of wartime bonds and their staying power through the most adverse of circumstances.
June 28, 2008
It has a good cast and the production values were first-class, allowing it to rise slightly above its hackneyed script.
September 12, 2016
Walsh unfolds the practical details of bootleggers' nocturnal maneuvers with quiet comedic flair alongside harrowing violence.
February 03, 2005
An epochal rise-and-fall epic of the gangster cycle.

