LITTLE CAESAR

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• Release Year: 1931
• Genre: Film-Noir
• Plot: 'R-I-C-O, Little Caesar, that's who!' Edward G. Robinson bellowed into the phone. And Hollywood got the message: 37-year old Robinson, not gifted with matinee-idol looks, was nonetheless a first-class star and moviegoers hailed the hard-hitting social consciousness dramas that became the Depression-era mainstay of Warner Bros.; ; 'Little Caesar' is the tale of pugnacious Caesar Enrico Bandello, a hoodlum with a Chicago-sized chip on his shoulder, few attachments, fewer friends and no sense of underworld diplomacy. ; ; And Robinson -- a genteel art collector who disdained guns (in the movie, his eyelids were taped to keep them from blinking when he fired a pistol) -- was forever associated with the screen's archetypal gangster.'
• Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell, William Collier Jr., Sidney Blackmer, Ralph Ince, Thomas E. Jackson, Stanley Fields, Maurice Black, George E. Stone, Armand Kaliz, Nicholas Bela, Ernie Adams, Elmer Ballard, Ferike Boros, Kernan Cripps, George Daly, Adolph Faylauer, Ben Hendricks Jr., Al Hill, Lucille La Verne, Gladys Lloyd, Noel Madison, Tom McGuire, Louis Natheaux, Henry Sedley, Gay Sheridan, Larry Steers, Landers Stevens, Mike Tellegen, Robert Walker, Mervyn LeRoy, W.R. Burnett, Robert N. Lee, David Mendoza
• Director: Mervyn LeRoy
• Runtime: 1:18
• Company: First National Pictures, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Turner Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie