The Roaring Twenties
“The land of the free gone wild! The heyday of the hotcha! The shock-crammed days G-men took ten whole years to lick!”
Raoul WalshCast
James Cagney 
Humphrey Bogart 
Priscilla Lane
Credits
Written by: Jerry Wald
Plot
Three army friends return from the First World War, and one rises and falls as a bootlegger in Prohibition America.
Sinekatalog’s take
Raoul Walsh's gangster saga follows three friends through Prohibition. James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart are superb, and the film's rise-and-fall arc and bitter ending make it a classic of the genre.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.9 / 10 (17,856 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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