An epochal rise-and-fall epic of the gangster cycle, Raoul Walsh’s skittering, impetuous The Roaring Twenties hits the ground running but a couple lengths further back on the track than one would expect. It bookends the glorious ascent of James Cagney’s bootlegger with a cold reception for soldiers returning from overseas following World War I on one side and the 1929 stock market crash on the other.
The plot, based on Mark Hellinger’s short story “The World Moves On,” defies genre conventions right out of the gate, beginning not with Cagney’s spry neophyte chump Eddie Bartlett traipsing his way into, say, the stage door of a hotbox revue but with him stumbling his way into a blown-out crater in Europe during the war. The role of Bartlett, a principled soldier who blossoms into a hoodlum with a conscience, found Cagney at a peculiar point in his career as a uniquely physical being,...
The plot, based on Mark Hellinger’s short story “The World Moves On,” defies genre conventions right out of the gate, beginning not with Cagney’s spry neophyte chump Eddie Bartlett traipsing his way into, say, the stage door of a hotbox revue but with him stumbling his way into a blown-out crater in Europe during the war. The role of Bartlett, a principled soldier who blossoms into a hoodlum with a conscience, found Cagney at a peculiar point in his career as a uniquely physical being,...
- 3/1/2024
- by Eric Henderson
- Slant Magazine
Australia.s pioneering entertainment lawyer Lloyd Hart has retired after nearly 45 years of service to the industry.
Arguably the first lawyer to specialise in entertainment law for the Australian film and television industry, he qualified as BA Llb in Brisbane, where he was born into a legal family and his father was a Supreme Court judge in Queensland.
He then travelled to the UK and Canada, gaining an Llm . Master of Laws . from London University. He started in the entertainment business in 1971 as in-house legal for the Australian Film Development Corporation, the first government funding agency, which was set up by the Gorton government in 1970. No film investment contracts existed at that time because there had never before been government funds available to be invested. As there were no precedents he had to create the basic development and investment contracts from scratch. In 1975 when the Australian Film Commission replaced the Afdc,...
Arguably the first lawyer to specialise in entertainment law for the Australian film and television industry, he qualified as BA Llb in Brisbane, where he was born into a legal family and his father was a Supreme Court judge in Queensland.
He then travelled to the UK and Canada, gaining an Llm . Master of Laws . from London University. He started in the entertainment business in 1971 as in-house legal for the Australian Film Development Corporation, the first government funding agency, which was set up by the Gorton government in 1970. No film investment contracts existed at that time because there had never before been government funds available to be invested. As there were no precedents he had to create the basic development and investment contracts from scratch. In 1975 when the Australian Film Commission replaced the Afdc,...
- 9/14/2015
- by Sue Milliken and Anni Browning
- IF.com.au
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