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Little Caesar is a 1931 American pre-Code crime film distributed by Warner Brothers, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, and starring Edward G. Robinson, Glenda Farrell, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. The film tells the story of a hoodlum who ascends the ranks of organized crime until he reaches its upper echelons.
Oscar-honoree Edward G. Robinson ("Double Indemnity," "Soylent Green") introduced the world to a new kind of gangster in his powerful portrayal of Johnny Rico, a small-time hood who brutally ...
Little Caesar: Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. With Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell, William Collier Jr.. A small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune.
Little Caesar, American gangster film, released in 1931, considered a classic of the genre. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.) In a critically acclaimed performance, Edward G. Robinson plays Rico Bandello, a petty crook who ultimately schemes his way to the top of a.
92% Tomatometer 25 Reviews. 75% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings. An aspiring small-town criminal, Caesar "Rico" Bandello (Edward G. Robinson) relocates to Chicago to hit the big time, accompanied...
Little Caesar (1930) -- (Movie Clip) They Can Only Hang You Once Rico (Edward G. Robinson), who's just killed the new crime commissioner in an audacious hold-up, hides as the cops (led by Thomas Jackson) drop in on Vettori (Stanley Fields) and the mob, then makes a bid for leadership, in the Warner Bros. hit Little Caesar, 1930.
Soon he becomes the leader of the gangsters and known as Little Caesar, and gets closer to the great mobster Pete Montana. In a robbery of a night-club, he kills the Crime Commissioner Alvin McClure and his pal Joe witnesses the murder.
