Jimmy Cagney finds it difficul;t getting work after returning from WWI. Prohibition starts and he drifts into delivering bootleg liquor and winds up becoming one of the major bootleggers in the business aided by his army buddy-lawyer friend and another army buddy Jeffrey Lynn, the psychotic Humphrey Bogart. Jeffrey Lynn wants out because he's kinda moral and in love with Cagney's girl. Bogart wants Cagney out of the way so he can control the business.
One of the classic gangster dramas Cagney made in the thirties and it would be his last for 10 years until he came back to the genre with White Heat. This is partly based on a real -life bootlegger and captures the years between WWI and the Wall Street Crash in micrcosm.Absolutely anything with Jimmy Cagney in it is well worth watching,m and with the added bonus of Bogey and Walsh at the helm this is pretty much unmissable. One of the greats.
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