The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties is a gangster film from 1939, directed by Raoul Walsh. The film stars James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart. The film is based on the story The World Moves On by Mark Hellinger. He wrote the story in the service of Jack Warner.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == James Cagney Humphrey Bogart (l) and (r) in The Roaring Twenties.Eddie Bartlett, George Hally and Lloyd heart, three American soldiers, meet for the first time during the last days of the first world war. After the Armistice, the three men returned to their homeland, they were each go their own way. It is the period of theprohibition and Eddie hardly takes work. Without the worth remembering he is obnoxious guys drag by cunning crime Panama Smith. Meanwhile he also for the first time meets the young and beautiful Jean Sherman. She was a pen pal of Eddie during the war.
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 * 3.1 film title
 * 3.2 Production
 * 3.3 worth knowing
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During a robbery on a boat that is transporting alcohol, runs into his old friend Eddie George. He also discovered that George in a presence of criminal circles. The two decide to work together and Eddie grows thanks to the illegal alcohol trade to a notorious criminal. What are the two later again United with Lloyd, who in the meantime has become a successful lawyer. The three war veterans join forces and earn a lot of money. It also gives Eddie his girlfriend Jean a chance to be the singer to perform in his nightclub. But then Lloyd in love with Jean and George for their own success. Eddie proposes nothing more for In no time. He is back on the street.

A few years later he meets Jean again. He discovers that she and Lloyd has given birth to a son. Eddie is jealous of Lloyd but decides no longer interfere with their relationship, until he finds out that George is planning to kill Lloyd. George, that Lloyd know too much and wants him silenced. Eddie intervenes and are looking for George on. it comes to a deadly climax. Eddie kills George but touches itself mortally wounded. A little later he drops in front of the entrance to a church in each other. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Background[ Edit] == ===Film title<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === From left to right: Humphrey Bogart,James Cagney and Jeffrey Lynn.<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The title of the film refers to the period in which the story takes place: the 1920s. In the United States this period is often the Roaring Twenties (literally: the noisy 20 's) or called Jazz Age . This period contains the interwar period, the period between the two world wars, the prohibition and the stock market crash of 1929. ===Production<span class="mw-editsection" len="336" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Jack Warner, head of Warner Brothers, the movie studio gave columnist Mark Hellinger the command to write a story. Hellinger came up with The World Moves On, that later served as the basis for the movie The Roaring Twenties. The main character Eddie Bartlett was based on the illegal liquor trader Larry Fay.
 * James Cagney - Eddie Bartlett
 * Humphrey Bogart - George Hally
 * Priscilla Lane - Jean Sherman
 * Gladys George - Panama Smith
 * Jeffrey Lynn - Llyod Heart

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film brought actors James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart together for one last time. Bogart and Cagney were previously seen together in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Cagney, in late 1930s best known for his gangster roles, crept after The Roaring Twenties aware for a long time no longer in the skin of crime characters. It was only in 1949, exactly ten years after The Roaring Twenties, he was back on display in a gangster film. That movie was called White Heat and was also directed by Raoul Walsh . ===Things Worth Knowing<span class="mw-editsection" len="345" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * When the film premiered, the filmmakers received only favorable comments.
 * The character Panama Smith went originally be played by Glenda Farrell . Other options were Ann Sheridan and Lee Patrick. The role eventually went to Gladys George. The character was based on nightclub owner Texas Guinan.
 * The film features like Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) images of the gangster film The Public Enemy (1931).
 * A young Don Siegel participated in the Assembly.