The Roaring Twenties (1939)
The land of the free gone wild! The heyday of the hotcha! The shock-crammed days G-men took ten whole years to lick!
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.
- Date of release
- 1939-10-28
- TMDB
- 7.5 / 10 (277)
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Director
- Raoul Walsh
Casting
- 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
- Edward Keane — Henderson
- Joe Sawyer — The Sergeant
- Joseph Crehan — Michaels
- George Meeker — Masters
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