Little Caesar
by Mervyn LeRoy, Elmer Clifton, Rudolf Ising
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Actor: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Edward G. Robinson, Glenda Farrell, Sidney Blackmer, William Collier Jr.Director: Elmer Clifton, Mervyn LeRoy, Rudolf Ising
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 78 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-01-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Little Caesar
Movie Review: Iconic. Unforgettably iconic.
Summary: 5 Stars
Iconic means pertaining to images. There's not a lot of plot to this movie, but the imagery blows you away; and stays with you forever. The rise and fall of Rico is a very simple story. He gets to the top by stopping at nothing. His readiness to shoot to kill, almost for the fun of it, scares half the gangsters into submission, and inspires the devotion of the other half. That's the mechanics of his rise. The role of the mysterious Mr Big in the ultra-luxurious pad at the top of the heap is unexplained. Nothing is shown of bootlegging (Rico is teetotal --- until his fall: is there a message there?) or prostitution. There's a cheap early hold-up, followed by an extremely unsubtle cash raid on a night-joint. The protection racket means that Rico's predecessor can spend most of his time playing solitaire. He's too fat, dumb and lazy to keep his seat. Rico appears to have no interest at all in women, but he is vain; he seeks fame and publicity, and has a fatal weakness for his good-looking former gunsel, Douglas Fairbanks Junior, a "sissy" dancer under the thumb of his female partner. It's the explosive performance of Robinson that carries this picture, but also the vivid imagery of the trappings of gangsterhood: the ugly mugs, the hand-irons, the swell banqueting, the comically illiterate speechifying, and the even sweller gangster funeral procession, the sub-human dialogue, the long, low automobiles that scoot round street corners, the rat-ta-tat of the tommy guns drilling holes in china-shop windows and through hoardings. The cigar-chomping. The lean, sardonic cop. The first talkie of its style, and still one of the best.
Summary of Little Caesar
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.Running Time: 78 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 012569672154Drama DVD Video
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