A delightfully stylish homage to the Roaring Twenties, juxtaposing a brutal gangster story with two rags to riches/romances and interspersing it all with old fashioned montages and wonderful jazz musical numbers
and dance routines. — Andy Kaiser

— What do they call you?
— Nobody calls me nothin’.
— Not even your mother?
— No mother. They found me in a garbage pail.

Quite simply, a wonderful movie. — Roger Ebert