It's a film which sticks up for an era that has long been painted as dusty, desiccated, and antique in an irretrievable wayIn Babylon, some of the most iof the 1920s are omitted – say, the unsolved 1922 murder of director William Desmond Taylor – or glancingly invoked, like the infamous multiple trials of star comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle for the killing and sexual assault of actress Virginia Rappe (he was eventually acquitted).
