The year 1939 is often cited as Hollywood’s finest moment, as proof positive that mercantilism (the studio system) and aesthetics (good movies) are mutually compatible. Give a casual movie-goer half a ...

Lloyd, George and Eddie have been friends since serving together in the First World War. But time and a woman drive them apart. As a lawyer, Lloyd wants nothing to do with his friends' illegal ...

The 1930s was the Golden Age of the gangster flick, the period in Hollywood history where almost every cliché and archetype about the cinematic mob life was created. A nation sandwiched between the ...

The Roaring Twenties (Warner Bros.). This version of the James Cagney-Humphrey Bogart running gun fight begins when Cagney tumbles into Bogart’s shell hole one day in 1918, ends with Killers Cagney ...

Raoul Walsh’s style achieved maturity with the magnificent use of deep-focus images and spatial metaphors in this 1939 film, conceived as a nostalgic look back to the brutal Warners gangster films ...