Publisher's Synopsis
This is the final segment of Kevin Brownlow's trilogy, of which the first two volumes were "The Parade's Gone By...", about the entertainment movies of the twenties, and "The War, The West And The Wilderness".;During the first twenty years of this century, crime, drugs, alcohol, prostitution, venereal disease, abortion, poverty and racism were prevalent, disrupting the lives of many. Some of the films of the time revealed these problems. A number of these films have been lost, but almost all of them are recreated for us in this study. Cinema historian Kevin Brownlow has delved into contemporary sources to describe the context, creation, plot and reception of the movies that showed the true face of America.
