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The Roaring Twenties
Year:
Duration:
106 min (Turner library print)
Genres:
Crime | Drama | Film-Noir | Thriller
IMDB rate:
7.9
Director:
Raoul Walsh
Awards:
1 win
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 1939-10-23
Filming Locations: Stage 19, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
Cast
Actor
Character
James Cagney
Eddie Bartlett
Priscilla Lane
Jean Sherman
Humphrey Bogart
George Hally
Gladys George
Panama Smith
Jeffrey Lynn
Lloyd Hart
Frank McHugh
Danny Green
Paul Kelly
Nick Brown
Elisabeth Risdon
Mrs. Sherman (as Elizabeth Risdon)
Edward Keane
Henderson (as Ed Keane)
Joe Sawyer
The Sergeant - Pete Jones
Joseph Crehan
Michaels
George Meeker
Masters
John Hamilton
Judge
Robert Elliott
First Detective
Eddy Chandler
Second Detective (as Eddie Chandler)
Abner Biberman
Henchman - Lefty
Vera Lewis
Mrs. Gray
John Deering
Narrator (voice)
Eddie Acuff
Cabbie (uncredited)
Ernie Alexander
Bootleg Customer (uncredited)
Murray Alper
Fletcher's Mechanic (uncredited)
Robert Armstrong
Hatted Passerby Before Nightclub (uncredited)
Raymond Bailey
2nd Ex-Con (uncredited)
Brooks Benedict
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
James Blaine
Club Doorman (uncredited)
Max Blum
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Wade Boteler
Policeman in Speakeasy (uncredited)
Harry C. Bradley
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Al Bridge
Ship Captain (uncredited)
Paul Bryar
Gangster (uncredited)
Nat Carr
Waiter (uncredited)
Glen Cavender
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Clay Clement
Bramfield (uncredited)
Ann Codee
Saleswoman (uncredited)
James Conaty
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Ray Cooke
Orderly (uncredited)
Calvin Coolidge
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Charles Corrigan
(uncredited)
Maurice Costello
(uncredited)
Kernan Cripps
Cop (uncredited)
Alan Davis
Vermont Man in Speakeasy (uncredited)
Sayre Dearing
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Joe Devlin
Order-Taker (uncredited)
Robert Dobson
Lieutenant (uncredited)
Bill Elliott
Bootlegger (uncredited)
James Flavin
(uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Curt Furburg
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Fred Graham
Henchman Eddie Pushes Over Railing (uncredited)
Creighton Hale
Customer (uncredited)
Bert Hanlon
Pianist (uncredited)
Carl Harbaugh
Street-Cleaner (uncredited)
Sam Harris
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
John Harron
Soldier (uncredited)
Eddie Hart
Store Doorman (uncredited)
Lew Harvey
3rd Ex-Con (uncredited)
Oscar 'Dutch' Hendrian
First Mate (uncredited)
Al Herman
Gorman Gin-Taster (uncredited)
Herbert Heywood
Pop (uncredited)
Al Hill
1st Ex-Con (uncredited)
Adolf Hitler
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Harry Hollingsworth
(uncredited)
Stuart Holmes
Taxi Passenger (uncredited)
Herbert Hoover
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
George Humbert
Luigi (uncredited)
Lloyd Ingraham
Official in Montage (uncredited)
Michael Jeffers
Joe - The Bartender (uncredited)
Jane Jones
Singing Trio Member (uncredited)
Mel Kalish
Singing Trio Member (uncredited)
Don Thaddeus Kerr
Bobby Hart (uncredited)
Donald Kerr
Cabbie (uncredited)
Milton Kibbee
Cabbie (uncredited)
Reid Kilpatrick
Announcer (uncredited)
Mike Lally
Gangster (uncredited)
Alfred Linder
Foreman (uncredited)
George Lloyd
Singing Trio Member (uncredited)
Arthur Loft
Still Proprietor (uncredited)
Charles Marsh
Timid Man (uncredited)
Frank Mayo
(uncredited)
King Mojave
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Philip Morris
Policeman (uncredited)
Jack Mower
Guard (uncredited)
Benito Mussolini
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Wendell Niles
Announcer (uncredited)
Field Norton
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Jack Norton
Drunk at Henderson Club (uncredited)
Wedgwood Nowell
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Pat O'Malley
Jailer (uncredited)
Oscar O'Shea
(uncredited)
David Oliver
(uncredited)
Emory Parnell
(uncredited)
William Pawley
Cabdriver (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
Bailiff (uncredited)
Paul Phillips
Mike (uncredited)
John J. Richardson
Sleeping Train Passenger (uncredited)
John Ridgely
Cabbie at Grand Central (uncredited)
Cyril Ring
Charlie (uncredited)
Warren Rock
Gangster (uncredited)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Don Rowan
Gangster (uncredited)
Hector V. Sarno
Warehouse Boss (uncredited)
Cliff Saum
Train Conductor (uncredited)
Jeffrey Sayre
Order-Taker (uncredited)
Bruce Sidney
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
John St. Clair
(uncredited)
Amzie Strickland
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Charles Sullivan
Freighter Crew Member (uncredited)
Elliott Sullivan
Eddie's Cellmate (uncredited)
Westbrook Van Voorhis
Narrator (uncredited)
Max Wagner
(uncredited)
Billy Wayne
Cabbie at Grand Central (uncredited)
Ben Welden
Tavern Proprietor (uncredited)
Dick Wessel
Fletcher's Mechanic (uncredited)
Leo White
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Frank Wilcox
Cabbie at Grand Central (uncredited)
Lottie Williams
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Norman Willis
Bootlegger (uncredited)
Charles C. Wilson
Policeman (uncredited)
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Trivia
After the release of this film, producer Mark Hellinger received a telegram from New York that read: "We are all sitting here in the Stork Club discussing your new picture. We are glad 'The Roaring Twenties' rates four stars and we wish we could be present to give you the remaining four-four. We love you. Walter Winchell, Louis Sobol, Damon Runyon, Rudy Vallee, Eddie Dowling, George M. Cohan, Sam Harris, Frank Buck, Buddy G. DeSylva, James J. Walker, Ted Husing, Ricardo Cortez, Sidney Clare, Bert Wheeler, Bert Lahr, Marc Lachmann, Clem McCarthy, Mack Gordon, Curley Harris, Jay C. Flippen, Dan Parker, Murray Lewin.
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James Cagney's character is introduced while the soundtrack is playing the song "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" - the same song that is playing at the end of his star-making film, The Public Enemy (1931) (made eight years earlier and also set in the 1920s), when his corpse is delivered to his family's home.
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The world premiere was a formal affair held at the Warner Theatre on Hollywood Blvd. on Oct. 23, 1939. Attendees included Harry M. Warner, Hal B. Wallis, Darryl F. Zanuck, Louis B. Mayer, Joseph Breen, Walter Wanger and Mark Hellinger.
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Goofs
When Eddie goes to the garage to ask for his old job back, he addresses the boss as "Mr. Fletcher". But on the closing cast list, the character (played by Joseph Crehan) is credited as "Michaels".
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When Eddie Bartlett kills Nick Brown, bullet holes can be seen in the door before Eddie shoots through the door.
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At the Panama Club, Eddie's glass of milk and the other two drinks disappear from the table just before the table gets flipped over and the brawl sequence begins.
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Quotes
Narrator: [Opening lines - various clips of 1930's news footages are shown] Today, while the earth shakes beneath the heels of marching troops, while a great portion of the world trembles before the threats of acquisitive power-mad men, we of America have little time to remember an astounding era in our own recent history. An era which will grow more and more incredible with each passing generation until someday people will say it never could have happened at all. April, 1918: almost a million American young men are engaged in a struggle which, they have been told, will make the world safe for democracy.
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Eddie Bartlett: [Eddie, in his Army uniform, returns to his old place of employment - a garage - seeking to get his job back. He speaks to his former boss] Hello, Mr. Fletcher.
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George Halley: [In the shell hole: Eddie offers a cigarette to George. He in turn takes it, and then picks out bugs that apparently infest everything] Ah, look at that. Them cooties are gettin' desperate: they're feedin' off tobacco.
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