Roaring Twenties
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✎ Suggest a correctionPortrays the Roaring Twenties era and recaptures the sights and sounds of the Jazz Age. Presents the story of a man who owns all the taxis in New York and who finds that he is wiped out in the crash of 1929.
Three men meet in a foxhole during the waning days of World War I. Lloyd Hart starts his law practice, George Hally, a former saloon keeper, becomes a bootlegger, and Eddie Bartlett, a garage mechanic, finds his old job filled. At the suggestion of his friend Danny Green, Eddie becomes a cab driver. After a short stint in jail, they go into the bootlegging business together. Eddie and George lead a heist of a warehouse and steal it, but George recognizes one of the watchmen as his former sergeant and murders him.
Three men meet in a foxhole during the waning days of World War I. Lloyd Hart starts his law practice, George Hally, a former saloon keeper, becomes a bootlegger, and Eddie Bartlett, a garage mechanic, finds his old job filled. At the suggestion of his friend Danny Green, Eddie becomes a cab driver. After a short stint in jail, they go into the bootlegging business together. Eddie and George lead a heist of a warehouse and steal it, but George recognizes one of the watchmen as his former sergeant and murders him.
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Portrays the Roaring Twenties era and recaptures the sights and sounds of the Jazz Age. Presents the story of a man who owns all the taxis in New York and who finds that he is wiped out in the crash of 1929.
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