The Roaring Twenties (1939)
"The land of the free gone wild! The heyday of the hotcha! The shock-crammed days G-men took ten whole years to lick!"
ThumbScore
👍 86%audience score Estimated from TMDB user ratings and critic scores, calibrated to Google's former audience score. Google stopped publishing it in 2026.
Critics Score
🎬 100%
(RT: 100%) RT = Rotten Tomatoes (critic reviews). MC = Metacritic (weighted critic average). Critics Score is the average of both.
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Cast
Priscilla Lane as Jean Sherman
Gladys George as Panama Smith
Jeffrey Lynn as Lloyd Hart
Frank McHugh as Danny Green
Paul Kelly as Nick Brown
Elisabeth Risdon as Mrs. Sherman
Is The Roaring Twenties good?
Yes. 86% audience score, estimated from 277 TMDB ratings. Critics gave it 100%.
Overview
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. Wikipedia ↗
