It is paced rather slow but it so richly unfolds. This movie is beautiful down to the smallest detail. Mandy Patinkin also adds much color as a poor but ambitious Jewish entrepreneur. Donald O'Connor is wonderful as a song and dance Vaudevillian of the era. There are many different characters and the time period is painstakingly recreated. This is an epic though so much more is going on than just that. Things just keep on escalating in a battle of wills and eventually the entire police force is involved. Coalhouse Walker, a black man, is humiliated by some volunteer firemen, who are jealous of seeing him drive around well-dressed in a nice new automobile. One of the families is white the other is black. Set exactly one hundred years ago in 1906 Ragtime is mostly about two families that come together and affect each other. Jackson and even silent film star Bessie Love. Rollins Jr., Debbie Allen, Pat O'Brien, Donald O'Connor, Jeff Daniels, Fran Drescher, Samuel L. Cagney) Elizabeth McGovern, Mandy Patinkin, Mary Steenburgen, Howard E. It also boasts an amazing cast that includes (besides Mr. Doctorow, directed by Milos Forman and produced by Dino De Laurentiis this movie has quite a pedigree. As a huge fan of James Cagney's, Ragtime was the one that I remember most anticipating. In Ragtime, On Golden Pond, Ghost Story and S.O.B respectively. James Cagney, Henry Fonda, Fred Astaire and William Holden all made their last theatrical film appearances that year. In 1981 there seemed to be a last hurrah for several classic era male stars. James Cagney made his last film appearance in Ragtime.
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