Little Caesar (Full Frame)

Last Minute Sales & Specials

"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.

Audio Commentary, Featurette.

"Leonard Maltin Hosts Warner Night at the Movies 1930 with Newsreel, Spencer Tracy Short 'The Hard Guy',"'Cartoon 'Lady Play Your Mandolin'"; 1954 Re-release Forward; English, Spanish, French Subtitles; Presented in Black and White.