# The Roaring Twenties (1939)

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**Runtime**: 104 min
**Genres**: Crime, Drama, Thriller
**Directed by**: Raoul Walsh
**Written by**: Robert Rossen, Jerry Wald, Richard Macaulay
**Starring**: James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Gladys George, Jeffrey Lynn, Frank McHugh

> *The land of the free gone wild! The heyday of the hotcha! The shock-crammed days G-men took ten whole years to lick!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Autumn in New York, the clatter of a dropped bottle on wet pavement.  
Eddie Bartlett trades army boots for taxi keys, then whiskey crates, then a fleet of gleaming cabs.  
Lloyd Hart reads contracts under a green lamp while George Hally smiles with his fists.  
A machine-gun glide through Prohibition’s golden dark, wrapped in a trench coat.

**Mood tags**: outsider, raw

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