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[Req] Roaring Twenties Themed Movies

  • 02-12-2008 2:45pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 528 ✭✭✭


    Hi All,

    I’m putting together a shopping list of movies based on the Roaring Twenties era. The kind of themes I’m looking for include:

    Prohibition/Speak Easy Culture/ The Jazz Age
    Stock Market Culture (“Everyone ought to be rich”)
    American Optimism for the future
    Glamourous City Lifestyle (Pin Striped Suits)
    American home lifestyle/consumerism (“What will they think of next?”)

    The most obvious example I have so far is James Cagney’s 1939 film “The Roaring Twenties”. [Other examples may include gangster films such as Scarface (1932) and Little Caesar (1931) however I am not exclusively looking for gangster films]

    If anyone can recommend any others, I’m all ears.

    Thanks In Advance for all responses


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,588 ✭✭✭JP Liz


    Bright Young Things


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,556 ✭✭✭Nolanger


    Bugsy Malone
    Cotton Club
    Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond
    St Valentine's Day Massacre


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Thoroughly Modern Millie

    Mike


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,536 ✭✭✭SpitfireIV


    'Road to Perdition'? But I think that after the Wall Street Crash, not roaring 20's so, but still has that theme running in it.


    'Millers Crossing'

    Havent seen it, but I believe 'The Aviator' is set around this period?

    How about 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit'? :P

    There are some more movies with this theme rattling around in my head, they'll come to me later....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,236 ✭✭✭Tomohawk


    They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)

    Of Men and Mice. (1939) (1992)

    The Great Gatsby (1974)


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