Ragtime

The passion, the violence, the birth of America's Gilded Age.

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A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.

Released: Nov 20, 1981

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James Cagney

New York Police Commissioner Rhinelander Waldo

Brad Dourif

Younger Brother

Moses Gunn

Booker T. Washington

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