[Homer_J_Simpson]

I just finished watching "Roaring Twenties." I thought it a fine motion picture. I don't hold the faux documentary stylings against it as Frank Nugent does in such a big way. How can you go wrong with Cagney and Bogart? Nugent didn't even mention Bogart in his review. I guess he was still a rising star in '39.

And a nosegay is a small bunch of flowers. What a "horrendous nosegay" is I still don't know.

[MinuteGal]

"I just finished watching 'Roaring Twenties' "

Where do you get all these golden oldies you watch?

I want some.

Leni

[Lancey Howard]

I have always been a huge Jimmy Cagney fan and have seen ‘Roaring Twenties’ a handful of times. Love it. Also, the other movie dissed by Nugent was ‘Little Caesar’ with Edward G. Robinson. Also excellent.

And yeah, Bogie was still a rising star in 1939. That’s why he had the “schmuck who gets killed” role in the movie.

[Lancey Howard]

‘The Public Enemy’ (1931) was also excellent and even somewhat disturbing in a few scenes. (One murder in particular sticks with you.) Be sure to watch the original “pre-code” version. It was the movie that launched Cagney.

By the way, in 1998 ‘The Public Enemy’ was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” (Wiki).

Nugent apparently missed the boat on that one,too.