This month, we present perhaps the best film ever made about the Roaring Twenties… a decade of greed and corruption on Wall Street and Main Street. The ills we read about in today’s news also happened in the years following World War I. The characters, though veiled as fictional, are based upon real people, while the story mirrors real life and is shown as only Warner Brothers could show it. The film is THE ROARING TWENTIES and was chosen as one of the ten best films ever made in its genre as a gangster film. Its plot scenarios are authentic and draw upon events of the day as seen under the penmanship of Mark Hellinger who wrote the short story used to make this film. It contains a stellar cast… Jimmy Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Gladys George and Priscilla Lane. They convincingly portray the characters represented… people in the headlines only ten years before this film was made. Finally, it is without a doubt one of Cagney’s greatest performances. This film is so good it ranked 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. That is a rare accomplishment.
If you have never seen THE ROARING TWENTIES or, if you saw it years ago on television, don’t miss this one. The digital restoration used on films these days allows the audience to see them as they never have been seen since their first release. THE ROARING TWENTIES will screen at Old City Hall on June 14th at 7:00pm. Doors open at 6:30pm.