The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Directed by Raoul Walsh · Cinematography by Ernest Haller
Approved106 min63 frames
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The land of the free gone wild! The heyday of the hotcha! The shock-crammed days G-men took ten whole years to lick!
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What is The Roaring Twenties about?
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.
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What does the cinematography of The Roaring Twenties look like?
Sampled across 63 frames, the coverage of The Roaring Twenties leans on medium shots (65% of the sample) and wide compositions (16%). Cinematographer Ernest Haller keeps 41% of it in soft, low-key light. Night and dusk account for 63% of the frames. Vintage glass shapes the frame. The production design places the film in the 1940s.
What is the color palette of The Roaring Twenties?
The dominant colors across the sampled frames of The Roaring Twenties (1939) are #030303, #8b8b8b, #c9c9c9, #303030, #fcfcfc, #6d6d6d — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.
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