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The Roaring Twenties

  • 1hr 46m
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Release Date:

Oct 28, 1939

Runtime:

1hr 46m

Synopsis

Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.

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100

Bogart and Cagney are gloriously dark in this gangster tour-de-force.

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Metacritic review by Kim Newman
Kim Newman
Empire
75

A trio of writers took New York critic turned studio exec Mark Hellinger’s notion for a “Roaring” era gangster saga and peppered it with enough snappy dialogue to pass for a screwball comedy.

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Metacritic review by Roger Moore
Roger Moore
Movie Nation
50

With a commentator's voice interpolating ultra-dramatic commonplaces as the film unreels, their melodrama has taken on an annoying pretentiousness which neither the theme nor its treatment can justify.

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Metacritic review by Frank S. Nugent
Frank S. Nugent
The New York Times
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