The Roaring Twenties 1939 PG
When
3.00pm, Sun 2 Apr 2017 (106 mins)Where
Gallery of Modern Art & Cinema A
About
Two of the great superstars of gangster films – Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney – appear in this classic crime saga. Three soldiers (Bogart, Cagney, and Jeffrey Lynn) return from the trenches of World War I to find a troubled America that would soon be enveloped by Prohibition. Two of them turn to the lucrative world of bootlegging, while the third uses his position as a lawyer to keep them out of jail. Their criminal enterprise begins to strain when rivalries over women, power and money start tearing them apart. A gangster epic in the vein of Martin Scorsese's GoodFellas 1990, The Roaring Twenties depicts the rise and fall of three characters over more than a decade of American life.
Production Credits
- Director: Raoul Walsh
- Producer: Samuel Bischoff
- Script: Robert Rossen
- Cinematographer: Ernest Haller
- Editor: Jack Killifer
- Music: Heinz Roemheld
- Cast: Humphrey Bogart
- Production Company: Warner Bros
- Print Source: Preserved by the Library of Congress /Rights: Roadshow Entertainment
- Year: 1939
- Runtime: 106 minutes
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Sound: Mono
- Colour: Black & White
- Screening Format: 35mm