The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Directed by Raoul Walsh
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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What critics compared The Roaring Twenties to
Mr. Scorsese once called Walsh’s 1939 post-World-War-I crime film, “ The Roaring Twenties ,” a “twisted Horatio Alger story,” a thumbnail description that also fits “American Hustle.”
It’s an adaptation of Nicholas Pileggi’s non-fiction book Wiseguy (with a Pileggi screenplay), given the breakneck pace of Raoul Walsh’s 1939 underworld history lesson The Roaring Twenties.