THE ROARING TWENTIES [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1939
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Suspense/Thriller
• Plot: The speakeasy era never roared louder than in this gangland chronicle that packs a wallop under action master Raoul Walsh's direction. Against a backdrop of newsreel-like montages and narration, it follows the life of jobless war veteran Eddie Bartlett (James Cagney) who turns bootlegger, dealing in 'bottles instead of battles.' Battles await Eddie within and without his growing empire. Outside are territorial feuds and gangland bloodlettings. Inside is the treachery of his double-dealing associate (Humphrey Bogart). It would be 10 years before Cagney played another gangster (in White Heat), a time in which gangster movies themselves became rare. 'He used to be a big shot,' Panama Smith (Gladys George) says at the finale, marking Bartlett's demise... and signaling the end of Hollywood's focus on the gangster era.
• Cast: James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Gladys George, Jeffrey Lynn, Frank McHugh, Paul Kelly, Elisabeth Risdon, Edward Keane, Joe Sawyer, Joseph Crehan, George Meeker, John Hamilton, Robert Elliott, Eddy Chandler, Abner Biberman, Vera Lewis, John Deering, Eddie Acuff, Ernie Alexander, Murray Alper, Robert Armstrong, Raymond Bailey, Brooks Benedict, James Blaine, Max Blum, Wade Boteler, Harry C. Bradley, Al Bridge, Paul Bryar, Nat Carr, Glen Cavender, Clay Clement, Ann Codee, James Conaty, Ray Cooke, Calvin Coolidge, Charles Corrigan, Maurice Costello, Kernan Cripps, Alan Davis, Sayre Dearing, Joe Devlin, Robert Dobson, Bill Elliott, James Flavin, Bess Flowers, Curt Furburg, Fred Graham, Creighton Hale, Bert Hanlon, Carl Harbaugh, Sam Harris, John Harron, Eddie Hart, Lew Harvey, Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian, Al Herman, Herbert Heywood, Al Hill, Adolf Hitler, Harry Hollingsworth, Stuart Holmes, Herbert Hoover, George Humbert, Lloyd Ingraham, Jane Jones, Mel Kalish, Don Thaddeus Kerr, Donald Kerr, Milton Kibbee, Reid Kilpatrick, Mike Lally, Alfred Linder, George Lloyd, Arthur Loft, Charles Marsh, Frank Mayo, King Mojave, Philip Morris, Jack Mower, Benito Mussolini, Wendell Niles, Field Norton, Jack Norton, Wedgwood Nowell, Pat O'Malley, Oscar O'Shea, David Oliver, Emory Parnell, William Pawley, Lee Phelps, Paul Phillips, John J. Richardson, John Ridgely, Cyril Ring, Warren Rock, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Don Rowan, Hector Sarno, Cliff Saum, Jeffrey Sayre, Bruce Sidney, John St. Clair, Charles Sullivan, Elliott Sullivan, Westbrook Van Voorhis, Max Wagner, Billy Wayne, Ben Welden, Dick Wessel, Leo White, Frank Wilcox, Lottie Williams, Norman Willis, Charles C. Wilson, Raoul Walsh, Jerry Wald, Richard Macaulay, Robert Rossen, Mark Hellinger, Earl Baldwin, Frank Donoghue, John Wexley
• Director: Raoul Walsh
• Runtime: 1:46
• Media Format: Movie