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23 October 1939 (USA) moreTagline:
The land of the free gone wild! The heyday of the hotcha! The shock-crammed days G-men took ten whole years to lick! morePlot:
After the WWI Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging... more | add synopsisUser Comments:
In this movie, Bogart proves to be the sneering, sadistic gangster moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| James Cagney | ... | Eddie Bartlett | |
| Priscilla Lane | ... | Jean Sherman | |
| Humphrey Bogart | ... | George Hally | |
| Gladys George | ... | Panama Smith | |
| Jeffrey Lynn | ... | Lloyd Hart | |
| Frank McHugh | ... | Danny Green | |
| Paul Kelly | ... | Nick Brown | |
| Elisabeth Risdon | ... | Mrs. Sherman (as Elizabeth Risdon) | |
| Edward Keane | ... | Henderson (as Ed Keane) | |
| Joe Sawyer | ... | The Sergeant | |
| Joseph Crehan | ... | Michaels | |
| George Meeker | ... | Masters | |
| John Hamilton | ... | Judge | |
| Robert Elliott | ... | First Detective | |
| Eddy Chandler | ... | Second Detective (as Eddie Chandler) |
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104 minCountry:
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Australia:PG (TV rating) | Canada:PG (video rating) | Norway:16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #5576) | Australia:GFilming Locations:
Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USAFun Stuff
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The world premiere was a formal affair held at the Warner Theatre on Hollywood Blvd. on Oct. 23, 1939. Attendees included Harry M. Warner, Hal B. Wallis, Darryl F. Zanuck, Louis B. Mayer, Joseph Breen, Walter Wanger and Mark Hellinger. moreGoofs:
Revealing mistakes: When the gangsters hurl bombs at a storefront from the car, watch the prop explosives bounce off the building and roll into the street before the blast. moreQuotes:
George Halley: [In the shell hole: Eddie offers a cigarette to George. He in turn takes it, and then picks out bugs that apparently infest everything] Ah, look at that. Them cooties are gettin' desperate: they're feedin' off tobacco.Eddie Bartlett: How much can a cootie smoke?
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After nearly a decade of concentrating on the gangster period of the twenties, it appeared that Warner Brothers had decided to make one, final glorified kiss-off to the genre in the spectacularly staged "The Roaring Twenties."
Director Raoul Walch was an odd choice for what turned out to be a first-rate action film, for Walsh was not normally a crime-film director The film contained every possible cliché connected with the era
Bogart's portrayal was interesting as we watched him coldly murder an ex-army sergeant who had given him a rough time in the service, and then set put to get rid of Jeffrey Lynn, now a successful lawyer working for the district attorney and intent on crushing Bogart's empire
Cagney, whose energy gave him a panerotic sexual magnetism, was evident with his two relationships which both tend to increase our valuation of Cagney as a person as are the two ladies involved: Priscilla Lane, the innocent whom Cagney helps and loves, and the experienced Gladys George who is evidently devoted to him but never expresses her feelings to him
This basic relationship between Cagney and the two female characters does not take away the great merit of "The Roaring Twenties"much more it proves the skill of Raoul Walsh and the writers in deploying conventional elements in an effective and meaningful way