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One would be hard put to find a movie that better embodied the excesses of the so-called "Jazz Age" much better than Walking Back -- Richard Wallins' "Smoke" Thatcher is the screen archetype for the 1920's "flaming youth," a middle-class (actually, upper-middle-class) boy whose free-drinking, free-spending, fast-driving antics with his classmates are well over the edge of excess from the opening frames. The movie is even-handed in its critique of society, however, also laying some blame with the boy's parents, who aren't above indulging in some bootleg refreshments.