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In 1939 the world was fascinating on. Warner Brothers, the Hollywood studio that owed its existence to Prohibition and the Volstead Act, was slowly weaning itself from gangster movies. The genre’s greatest star, James Cagney, was heartily sick of playing gangsters - How many ways can you hit a guy, anyway?
THE ROARING TWENTIES, from the chronicle “The World Moves On” by common Broadway columnist Ticket Hellinger, was `a memory’ of the era Warners mined so successfully, and profitably, in the thirties. It stars Cagney as Eddie Bartlett, a more-or-less gracious guy who fought in World War I only to return to a country that didn’t quite know what to do with all of her returning soldiers. Bartlett’s two army buddies figure prominently in his eventual rise and plunge - the slimy George Hally (Humphrey Bogart) and golden boy Lloyd Hart (Jeffrey Lynn) . Bartlett’s first touch of the Astronomical Bottom occurs early on after his return. The job he’d conception was waiting for him when he got home is filled by someone else, and soon enough he sees and grabs at the opportunities presented by Prohibition. Bartlett’s ascent begins when he begins to form his enjoy bathtub gin. Along the plan Barlett enlists the services of customary foxhole buddies Hally (right-hand gunsel) and Hart (right advisor) . Bartlett goes into the speakeasy business with Panama Smith (Gladys George) and falls hard for gorgeous young Jean Sherman (Priscilla Lane) . Of course it’s lonely at the top, and with treacherous associates like Hally and rivals like Sever Brown (Paul Kelly), precarious as well.
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Cagney may have been sick of playing gangsters by 1939, but it’s hard to bellow that from his performance. There’s impartial something upright about everything he does with a character who has to recede, convincingly, from the gutter to the penthouse, and then serve again to the gutter. It’s a consummate performance, and director Raoul Walsh, best known as an action director, handles the intimate moments with delicacy and sensitivity. Barlett’s forlorn fancy for good-girl Jean, with good-boy Lloyd lurking around in the background, is doomed from the originate, and Walsh and Cagney contemplate it to gracious do. Gladys George’s Panama’s miscast affections are also delicately painted. Walsh balances the quieter moments with action scenes that would have fit comfortably in the later-day gangster films of Coppola and Scorsese. In fact, the shootout in Crop Brown’s diner is an distinct template for a similar scene in The Godfather.
THE ROARING TWENTIES is a masterpiece. The transfer print is in very ample condition - I was so wrapped up in the account I really didn’t recognize any flicks or flacks. Warners has loaded this one with fun extras. There’s a twenty small feature titled “The Roaring Twenties: Time Moves On” featuring director Martin Scorsese and film experts Lincoln Hurst, Alain Silver, Tag Viera and Andrew Sarris. The theme is the demolish of the gangster movie cycle and Cagney’s and Bogart’s careers. The other special feature is Warner Night at the Movies, which opens with a trailer; a 1939 newsreel (”Worlds of Tomorrow”) ; a charming Lloyd French directed “All-Girl Revue” that features a young June Allyson as `mayor for a day’ singing the forgettable “We’ve Got to Manufacture the City Dazzling”; a Grouch Club entry titled “The Sizable Library Misery”; and a color cartoon, “Thugs With a Dirty Mug.”
One of my all-time approved gangster movies. The Roaring 20’s features James Cagney at his best as a returning WWI vet who has lost his job, turns to bootlegging and muscles his intention to the top. Cagney is at his wisecracking tough guy peak in this and he is given a hurry for his money by Humphrey Bogart as his WWI buddy turned partner turned rival.
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The movie traces these characters through the tumultuous speakeasy days. Cagney’s character falls for a young singer who is in admire with a young straightshooting attorney. Eddie(Cagney) has one sincere admirer in Panama Smith an aging speakeasy manager who is played flawlessly by Gladys George. She delivers the most memorable line in the movie “Regain a Victrola- Jughead”.
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The chronicle culminates with Eddie being ruined financially and having a showdown with Bogart’s character that results in the death scene to raze all death scenes. Cagney’s staggeriing down the street and collapsing on the church steps after being shot has been often imitated but never duplicated.
A mountainous movie and a fraction of film history that stands up to repeated viewings.
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