weezeralfalfa This is primarily Cagney's film, Bogie not appearing until halfway through. Cagney and Bogie, ex-GI buddies, both get into the bootleg liquor business, initially separately, then as partners, before their breakup toward the end. Lloyd, also a GI buddy, is a lawyer and helps them hurdle legal problems, until they kill a couple of warehouse guards. They have a few altercations with Paul Kelly, as a competing bootlegger. Eddie(Cagney) has a romance dilemma. He's in love with a wholesome pretty girl(Pricilla Lane), who sings in a speakeasy, and tries to marry her, but she doesn't love him nor the people he associates with. The older Gladys Georgia hosts a speakeasy, is quite personable and pretty. She has more in common with Cagney, and, in the end, is the only one who comforts him. Has a good feel for the Prohibition era, with several gun battles. Raoul Walsh directs.

herr_luke In this picture we can see the development of Eddie Bartlett (James Cagney) who returns to the United States after WW1 to find himself unemployed. After a few times of trying, he accidentally bumps into the booze traffic. He ends up in jail after being caught by the cops while delivering an unknown package who turned to be booze. After serving some time in jail he starts his clandestine booze traffic business and gets to the top of society thanks to the prohibition which allows to traffic booze at a high price. After prohibition is terminated and '29 crisis hit the world, he started once again from the bottom but this time he can't get his life straight.Lesson of the movie is that it's not about getting to the top but to stay there. How the world turns and how you're prepared for it.

SnoopyStyle Lloyd Hart (Jeffrey Lynn), Eddie Bartlett (James Cagney) and George Hally (Humphrey Bogart) are war buddies after falling into the same bomb crater. After the end of WWI, Lloyd goes back to practicing law. It's the start of prohibition. Eddie is out of luck without a job and Danny Green offers him his cab. He goes to see his pen pal Jean Sherman (Priscilla Lane) but she turns out to be a school girl. He gets thrown in jail after being tricked into delivering a bottle. Panama Smith (Gladys George) pays the fine to get him out of jail. Eddie soon joins Panama in the business. He becomes successful with a fleet of cabs. He keeps Lloyd as his reluctant lawyer. Then he runs into an older Jean. When he fights another bootlegger, he runs into George who's running liquor for the another guy. George convinces Eddie to join forces.The only problem for this movie is that Bogie doesn't come back until after an hour. So a warning to his fans, this is more a Cagney film. I would have preferred they stay together through the whole movie. That would make any double cross more compelling and any fights more heart breaking. There is singing, and there is gangster violence. It's a nice gangster movie with a couple of big gangster stars.

utgard14 Three men (James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Jeffrey Lynn) who fought alongside each other in World War I try to make a go of it in 1920s America. Cagney tries to go straight but is pushed into a life of crime as a bootlegger. Bogart doesn't even try! He's rotten and he loves it. Lynn becomes a lawyer but soon finds himself pulled into the business by pal Cagney, while also falling for the girl Cagney's in love with (Priscilla Lane).James Cagney gives one of his finest performances of the '30s. Bogart is a deliciously evil villain. Every scene he's in, he's great. Lane and Lynn are fine but I found myself disliking their characters by the end. But that's probably more to do with my sympathies lying with Cagney. Gladys George is terrific as Panama Smith, a nightclub hostess who holds a torch for Cagney. A first-rate gangster picture like only Warner Bros. could do. Great direction by Raoul Walsh. If you're a fan of any of the stars involved or just a fans of WB gangster pictures in general, you just have to see this one.