Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.
- prohibition era
- gangster
- great depression
- 1920s
- admiring
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
James Cagney
Eddie Bartlett
Priscilla Lane
Jean Sherman
Humphrey Bogart
George Hally
Gladys George
Panama Smith
- Jeffrey Lynn — Lloyd Hart
- Frank McHugh — Danny Green
- Paul Kelly — Nick Brown
- Elisabeth Risdon — Mrs. Sherman
- Edward Keane — Henderson
- Joe Sawyer — The Sergeant
- Joseph Crehan — Michaels
- George Meeker — Masters
- John Hamilton — Judge
- Robert Elliott — First Detective
- Eddy Chandler — Second Detective
- Directed
- Raoul Walsh
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 271 ratings
- Studio
- Warner Bros. Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
