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(1930s) Little Caesar
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1930s Highlights
Movies
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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Little Caesar
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<p>(January 19, 1931)
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<p> 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.</p>
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