After World War I, friends Eddie (James Cagney), George (Humphrey Bogart) and Lloyd (Jeffrey Lynn) return to America with ambitions for the future. The trio attempts to make a living; the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
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February 03, 2005
An epochal rise-and-fall epic of the gangster cycle.
April 08, 2011
A powerful story of wartime bonds and their staying power through the most adverse of circumstances.
July 17, 2009
Dynamic, quintessential gangster film, wonderfully stylized by director Raoul Walsh,
September 12, 2016
Walsh unfolds the practical details of bootleggers' nocturnal maneuvers with quiet comedic flair alongside harrowing violence.
June 28, 2008
It has a good cast and the production values were first-class, allowing it to rise slightly above its hackneyed script.
January 01, 2000
The Roaring Twenties (1939) is action director Raoul Walsh's first gangster film. This newsreel-like, semi-documentary film,
April 14, 2013
If Raoul Walsh didn't invent the Warners style, then he certainly brought it to its electric apex
June 02, 2006
One of the last great gangster films of the 1930s. Cagney brings a touch of poignancy to the hood who time has passed by, and Gladys George is splendid as Panama.
