If you loved They Drive by Night, try The Roaring Twenties

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Raoul Walsh, and they both carry the dread mood tag, and they sit in Crime / Drama / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to They Drive by Night, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The Roaring Twenties is

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.

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