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- Little Caesar
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- (January 19, 1931)
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- Undoubtedly the most familiar of current screen figures is
- the fearless, ambitious gangster who becomes rich on the fruits
- of evil and dies in the last reel in a heroic manner. With less
- adroit handling Little Caesar might easily have been no more
- than a fair program picture and its central character merely a
- reflection of his many forerunners. Instead, Actor Edward G.
- Robinson has made his role the supreme embodiment of a type. He
- is helped by Mervyn Leroy's fine directing and by the fact that
- W.R. Burnett's story was comprehensive, telling the whole of the
- gangster's life. Actor Robinson makes Little Caesar far more
- complete than Author Burnett saw him, a gangster of Greek
- tragedy, destroyed by the fates within him.
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