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!
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10/28/1939Runtime
104 minsOverview
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
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A bracing chronicle of three friends whose post-war dreams curdle into mutual destruction during Prohibition, told with the urgency and moral clarity of a fever dream. What begins as opportunistic reinvention becomes a tragedy of ambition undone by greed and desire.
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