It roars on but not quite as thrillingly as we expected. Released in 1939 and set in the 20s but it seems to be really what it was going to be in the 40s. The songs and music and costumes not as good as they could have been although Priscilla Lane is okay. The gangsters, after the war are finding their way and in this one James Cagney is great but is getting bored and will go on with some different films. Humphrey Bogart is fine, sometimes overacting, some not at all and then especially towards the end he is amazing and maybe even better than Cagney. Obviously he will go on to star only a couple of years later and the crime films in the 40s will really become the noir classics, and many with Bogart.
Review of The Roaring Twenties
