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Date  Helpful Rating 0 out of 0 users found this helpful  James Cagney&Howard Rollins Ragtime.Posted: 3/22/2003A review of Ragtime by newybambijay I loved the entire movie...old-fashioned...beautiful attire...warmth..the cars the hats....the music score. James Cagney was the perfect officer for that era...and Howard E. Rollins...the perfect everything else. The scene where he played the piano...played ragtime captured me to the whole movie...all the way to the sad...but strong ending. This is one movie to add to your collection...a watcher....over and over and over...again! Was this review helpful? Sign In 0 out of 0 users found this helpful Black and Stamford White In this, his final screen appearance; James Cagney is re-united with former cronies Pat O'Brien and Donald O'Connor to help form the nucleus of a lavish epic of America's past, based on the real-life events of New York publisher Stamford White; skillfully assembled by Milos Forman. This is New York in the 1930's with all its unique social hypocracies and its well-crafted charm as the lives of three unlikely individuals become uniquely intertwined to breed scandal, prejudice, terrorism and commerce in a time when mankind clawed its way to higher technologies. A local publisher erects a statue resembling a popular 'Flora-Dora' girl, which enrages her husband to a ruthless crescendo. She becomes involved with a member of an up-state family and then an enterprising Czech artisan, striving away from the Lower East Side ghetto where his peers have clustered in refuge via Ellis Island. Meanwhile, the family does the unheard of act of taking in a black woman and her illegitimate child, only to bring the Father's curiosity to a head; but ultimately re-uniting the pair and saving the woman from the primitive retributions of the old morality. The black suitor, makes his wedding plans in light of recent sucess until he falls victim to his outrage over prejudices heaped upon him by a pre-dominant and unresponsive caucasian society. A tight web of subtle conflicts erupt as Ragtime progresses, garnering Cagney a well-deserved although belated Oscar. Howard E. Rollins Jr. is equally powerful as musician turned terrorist. A first class cast (say that three times, fast) right down to the last 'Keystone' cop; and a gripping drama. Was this review helpful? Sign In 0 out of 0 users found this helpful ragtimeyes i was just scrolling the net and boy did i run across a movie that i seen in the days back and everywhere i go know one have this movie is it anyway you'll can tell me how to get this movie it was the bomb and i really like to by this movie so if u can help me please do. Was this review helpful? Sign In 1-3 of 3 Per Page | ||
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