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The Roaring Twenties

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

1939 · 1h 44m

Directed by Raoul Walsh

7.5

TMDB audience score
279 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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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Cast

  • 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

  • John Hamilton
    Judge

  • Robert Elliott
    First Detective

  • Eddy Chandler
    Second Detective

  • Abner Biberman
    Henchman

  • Vera Lewis
    Mrs. Gray

  • John Deering
    Narrator (voice)