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!
The Roaring Twenties
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  • Leonard Maltin hosts Warner Night at the Movies 1939 with newsreel, musical short All Girl Revue, Comedy Short The Great Library Misery, cartoon Thugs with Dirty Mugs and theatrical trailors
  • New featurette The Roaring Twenties: The World Moves OnCommentary by film historian Dr. Lincoln Hurst
  • Subtitled in English, French & Spanish.
  • Rated: Not Rated
  • Closed captioning available
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
  • Video: Black & White
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: January 25, 2005
  • Originally Released: 1939
  • Label: Warner Home Video

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User Ratings: 5,079
Rating: 4/5 -- 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.
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
Jun 2, 2006
[A] nostalgic look at the 1920s that stars a superb Cagney...
Los Angeles Times
Jan 23, 2005
Mr. Cagney, of the bull-calf brow... is as always a superb and a witty actor. Full Review
The Spectator
Jun 14, 2018
Rating: 69/100 -- A powerful story of wartime bonds and their staying power through the most adverse of circumstances. Full Review
Film and Felt
Apr 8, 2011
Dynamic, quintessential gangster film, wonderfully stylized by director Raoul Walsh, Full Review
Classic Film and Television
Jul 17, 2009
Rating: 3.5/4 -- An epochal rise-and-fall epic of the gangster cycle. Full Review
Slant Magazine
Feb 3, 2005
The Roaring Twenties (1939) is action director Raoul Walsh's first gangster film. This newsreel-like, semi-documentary film, Full Review
AMC Filmsite
Jan 1, 2000

Description by OLDIES.com:

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.

Product Description:

It's the original drug war and bullets are flying in this classic gangster film. Cagney plays the role of a tough bootlegger who encounters two old army buddies years after the war in which they fought together. A fine screen adaptation of a story by Mark Hellinger.

Description by Warner Home Video:

Three World War I buddies clash in a vicious bootlegging racket. Based on a Mark Hellinger story.

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CAGNEY THE MAGNIFICENT Movie Lover: from BRONX NY USA -- August, 10, 2014

IMAGINE BEING 10 YEARS OLD AND WATCHING THE ROARING TWENTIES AT 1 AM WHILE YOUR PARENTS WERE SLEEPING AND AFTERWARDS THINKING TO YOURSELF MAN CAN I WATCH THIS FILM OVER AGAIN! WELL THAT HAPPENED TO ME BACK IN 1973! THERE ARE TOO MANY MEMORABLE SCENES IN THIS MOVIE TO COUNT BUT I WILL SAY THIS THAT AFTER WATCHING THIS MOVIE THAT I FELL IN LOVE WITH JAMES CAGNEY! EVEN THOUGH BOGIE IS IN THIS FILM- YOU FOCUS ON CAGNEY! HE IS MY ALL TIME FAVORITE ACTOR AND THE ROARING TWENTIES IS ONE OF HIS BEST FILMS!


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  • Sales Rank: 120,010
  • UPC: 012569690820
  • Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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