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The Roaring Twenties
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.
1939 · Directed by Raoul Walsh · 104 min · Crime · Drama · Thriller · 15 frames
Tagline
The land of the free gone wild! The heyday of the hotcha! The shock-crammed days G-men took ten whole years to lick!
Crew
- Screenplay: Richard Macaulay, Jerry Wald, Robert Rossen
- Cinematography: Ernest Haller
- Edited by: Jack Killifer
- Music: Heinz Roemheld, Ray Heindorf
- Produced by: Samuel Bischoff, Hal B. Wallis
Cast
- James Cagney as Eddie Bartlett
- Priscilla Lane as Jean Sherman
- Humphrey Bogart as George Hally
- Gladys George as Panama Smith
- Jeffrey Lynn as Lloyd Hart
- Frank McHugh as Danny Green
- Paul Kelly as Nick Brown
- Elisabeth Risdon as Mrs. Sherman
- Edward Keane as Henderson
- Joe Sawyer as The Sergeant
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Warner Bros. Pictures
- Themes: prohibition era, gangster, great depression, 1920s, admiring
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