The Roaring Twenties

Name: The Roaring Twenties
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: October 28, 1939
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 80

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Warner Bros. | Release Date: October 28, 1939 | Passed

Summary: Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: Passed

Runtime: 106 min

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Empire Kim Newman

Bogart and Cagney are gloriously dark in this gangster tour-de-force. Read full review

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The Times Kevin Maher

One of the many classic movies from “the greatest of all years”, 1939 (see also The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind and Stagecoach), this epic gangster flick dares to provide psychological back stories for the characters. Read full review

Noel Murray

This is an exciting, sweeping vision of American life, which treats crime like the ultimate small business, crushed by the machinations of the truly powerful. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

Walsh and producer Mark Hellinger's classic ultra-tough gangster opus about World War I, Prohibition and good-hearted mobster Jimmy Cagney's breezy rise and grim fall. [18 Feb 2005, p.C6]

Richard Brody

The over-all tone of the drama—concerning foxhole friends who end up as partners in crime but rivals in love—evokes the flailings of unformed men whom a heedless society tossed in harm’s way and then cast aside. Read full review

Geoff Andrew

Most impressive for its frantic pace and its suggestion that in times of Depression almost everyone is corruptible, it's also a perverse elegy to a decade of upheaval. Read full review

Pauline Kael

If you fed the earlier gangster movies into a machine and made a prototype, you'd come up with this picture.

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