The Roaring Twenties 1939 Part 1

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One of Cagney's best gangster flicks, and his last one until White Heat, ten years later. Features a stellar cast, including his old buddy, character actor Frank McHugh, a heartless Humphrey Bogart, and the lovable Priscilla Lane. The decline of a gangster, detailed in this film, is really Jimmy's decline from the gangster role, at least those shown on celluloid in the 30s. His next role in White Heat in 1949 was a different kind of criminal: unfeeling, psychotic, sadistic, and a product of ...