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