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Little Caesar


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  Little Caesar Review
Tookey's Rating
7 /10
 
Average Rating
7.93 /10
 
Starring
Edward G. Robinson , Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
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Directed by: Mervyn Le Roy
Written by: Robert N. Lee, Darryl F. Zanuck (uncredited), Francis Edwards Faragoh (undredited), Robert Lord from W.R. Burnett's novel

 
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Released: 1930
   
Genre: ACTION
IMPORTANT
CRIME
THRILLER
   
Origin: US
   
Length: 80
 
 


 
Rise and fall of a Chicago gangster (Edward G. Robinson, pictured).

Reviewed by Chris Tookey



This early talkie that founded the gangster genre is primitive and static by modern standards, but Edward G. Robinson gives one of his greatest performances as a thinly disguised Al Capone.


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