The Roaring Twenties Comments

  • Maud 2023-09-24 19:38:46

    One of the ancestors of gangster films, Cagney's acting skills are so good, Bogart is just a younger brother in front of him. The lines are brilliantly written, especially when Cagney tells Bogart at the end of the credits: People build things, we destroy things, and this is not our time. Undoubtedly pulling the film to new heights, gangster films are never just about fighting. The role of actress Gladys George is very interesting, a very interesting...

  • Zechariah 2023-09-13 06:26:17

    Prohibition was a very unmarket...

  • Eloy 2023-09-09 08:34:12

    The economic crisis of alcohol smuggling in World War I, from the experience of three soldiers who jumped into a trench, shows the joys and sorrows and madness of that era. ps: The script provides good material for future plots, love crimes and other genres. James Cagney is worthy of the "AFI Centennial Top 100 Stars", director Raoul Walsh, who is an actor can always find those shining points (discovering John Wayne) , has a strong sense of the times for the film. it's a good...

  • Rozella 2023-09-09 00:32:11

    - Except for Cagney, the others are basically functional characters. The scattered structure enjoys a relatively unified tone in a series of highly expressive superimposed montages. The smooth context is derived and effectively organized, which is consistent with the Compared with other gangster films of the same period, the superimposed montage is generally used to complete the rapid advancement of the rhythm, which is relatively clever and...

  • Vicky 2023-09-08 04:44:45

    It was the last shot that I realized that it had been in the computer for so long, all because of Scorsese's recommendation. When asked about her relationship with the deceased, the woman who was holding her lover said indifferently that I have never figured it out, which made me...

  • Krista 2023-08-11 19:45:01

    Great old movie with a very tight...

  • Clark 2023-08-07 11:04:36

    Prohibition Chronicle Looks Good on Cagney "I've never figure it...

  • Dessie 2023-08-02 13:09:21

    The Ups and Downs of Little People in the Prohibition Era, James Cagney's Brilliant...

  • Hermina 2023-08-01 04:33:26

    @JN - Provence Time Cafe - Issue 185 I have a date with a movie: commercial in the thirties? It is said that the source of many films? The loneliness is written under the lively and flashy appearance, but it is obvious. The first time the male protagonist sees the heroine, he quickly leaves the underage girl; the first time he sends her home, he will leave quietly when he learns that his mother is dead; he fulfills her decisiveness with her little lover. Three fragments, three different...

  • Jess 2023-07-28 06:05:41

    Black and white once upon a time in America, Cagney is amazing, it's like the character was made for him, and there's Bogart in...

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  • Jaquan 2022-06-19 20:03:58

    worthy for my liquor and my tear

    This film is worthy of my 10-year-old bottle of Canadian Club Blend. I was holding the empty whisky bottle and watched with tears in my eyes.

    Raoul Walsh, one of the 36 founders of the academy, has seen his sleepy nights at Motianling, the bloody battle of annihilating bandits and the shroud of...

  • Ryleigh 2022-06-19 17:15:56

    villain love

    The film portrays the emotional line of the gangsters as a minority in society. We can actually see that james' love for periscilla is that even though the girl finally got married and had children, when she went to find evidence to help her, james still went to help her, and sacrificed her own for...

The Roaring Twenties quotes

  • George Halley: [In the shell hole, battle raging overhead] What's a matta' kid? Ya' scared?

    Lloyd Hart: Yes I am.

    George Halley: [Chuckles unsympathetically] No heart, huh?

    Lloyd Hart: I'm beginning to think so. At least I haven't got any heart for this. I thought this business would be over with before I got here.

    George Halley: What, are you a college kid?

    Lloyd Hart: I just finished law school.

    Eddie Bartlett: Oh, a lawyer, huh? Can you think of anything that can get us out of this hole?

    George Halley: Aw, he wouldn't if he could. He's one of them guys that cheer the loudest back home, and then when they get over here and the goin' gets tough they fold up.

    Eddie Bartlett: [Annoyed] Shut up...

    George Halley: I'm talkin' to him...

    Eddie Bartlett: [Talking to George] And I'm talkin' to YOU. I don't like heels or big mouths. We're all scared, and why shouldn't we be? Whaddya' think they're usin' in this war, water pistols?

    Eddie Bartlett: [Talking to Lloyd] You're all right, kid. I like guys who are honest with themselves. Stay that way.

    Eddie Bartlett: [the shelling around them has died down] Come on. Looks like it's quieted down.

    [the three men make their way out of the shell hole]

  • George Halley: [Referring to The Sergeant, who rides roughshod over the men] Someday I'm gonna' catch that ape without his stripes on and I'm gonna' kick his teeth out.

    Eddie Bartlett: [Mockingly looking George up and down] You must be quite a guy back home.

    George Halley: [Shrugs nonchalantly] I do all right.