Little Caesar (film)

Little Caesar is a 1931 Warner Bros. crime film that tells the story of a hoodlum who ascends the ranks of organized crime until he reaches its upper echelons. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Edward G. Robinson and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., the story was adapted by Francis Edward Faragoh, Robert N. Lee, Robert Lord and Darryl F. Zanuck uncredited from the novel of the same name by William R. Burnett. Little Caesar was Robinsons breakthrough role and immediately made him a major film star.

Smalltime criminals Caesar Enrico Rico Bandello Edward G. Robinson and his friend Joe Massara Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. move to Chicago to seek their fortunes. Rico joins the gang of Sam Vettori Stanley Fields, while Joe wants to be a dancer. Olga Glenda Farrell becomes his dance partner and girlfriend.Joe tries to drift away from the gang and its activities, but Rico makes him participate in the robbery of the nightclub where he works. Despite orders from underworld overlord Big Boy Sidney Blackmer to all his men to avoid bloodshed, Rico guns down crusading crime commissioner Alvin McClure during the robbery, with Joe as an aghast witness. ........

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