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Edward G. Robinson exploded onto movie screens as Enrico Bandello, small-time thug turned hoodlum kingpin, and the rest was gangster movie history. 'Little Caesar' is still the mother of all underworl...( read more 
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MCT:August 23, 2008
This is a well made early mob movie. Robinson is great in the title role. This is not as good as some of the James Cagney mob movies but still enjoyable.
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MCT:August 20, 2008
in the breakthrough role of a film career spanning more than 50 years, robinson is magnetic as a gangster based on al capone, who was alive and well when this was made. his buddy, douglas fairbanks jr, just wants to dance. but once you're in there's no gettin out.
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MCT:June 22, 2008This and the public enemy are two of the best old gangster movies ive seen, really spectacular !! It really deserves to be in the AFI top 10 Gangster movies
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MCT:March 25, 2008
this is a solid flick. robinson was great in these gangster roles, and this is one of his classics. there wasnt a stress on things that usually make a film great, but it wasnt trying to be great, it was just trying to entertain and it did.
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MCT:March 1, 2008
The movie that made Edward G. a star. I love all of the Warner Brother Gangster films of the 30's. It's a little goofy at times,but I don't care you mugs, I was entertained see. Yea. Yea!
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MCT:January 12, 2008great movie. popularized not only the gangster genre but talkies as a whole as well. Robinson is just flawless as the titular antihero. a fantastic classic film.
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MCT:November 28, 2007
another classic gangster flick blueprinted on legendary mob-killer al capone....it contributes to edward g. robinson's promptly made stardom, also a stepping stone for douglas fairbanks jr. to further his sprouting career, fairbanks' role as the best pal of rico's (little caesar played robinson) is hearsay the tale of george raft's catapult from mob thug toward broadway dancer then hollywood star. both the roles of little caesar and best pal were considered with clark gable, but rebuked by jack warner becuz of gable's strung-out ears.
the story is basically archetyped: caesar enrico bandello seeks fame and wealth by exerting himself to the top scale of rough masculinity, plundering of what he wants incorrigibly. something differentiates little caesar is his eagerness of news paper publicity, and he sets up his goal to be praised gloriously in news paper in the first scene at cafe....and also another peculiar trait is the abscence of mistress...usually in gangster flicks, a gangster makes his success, he would pursue after a dame to satiate his lust with his mighty power then consummate his egoism of manhood with a flashy harpie-alike female. but little caesar is not enthusiastic to seek a female companion, he's more avid to solicit his best pal joe back to celebrate his success instead, even tempts his pal with the enormous profits of his business. converted joe chooses to be reformed by his love interest, therefore it breaks caesar's heart..and our ruthless caesar cannot even trigger a shot to dispose of joe to eliminate the danger of exposure. some critics doubt seriously if little caesar is a closet homosexual or not, and he seems not interested in women that is an amusing notion. is the existence of woman only the assureness of man's heterosexuality??
as for the legendary finishing line "mother of mercy, is that the end of rico?"....the scriptor wonders if he should choose "mother of god" or "mother of mercy"....and the chewing cigar poise is innovated by robinson's own idiosyncracy...and there's another more cynical ending written in script which is rico hears news paper condemns him as yellowed coward, he rushes to the police station in an outrage but no one recognizes him as little caesar, then he departs and be a nameless bum for good.
"little caesar" in general is not an elaborately made flick, considering its time, 1930, it was just the attempted trial of popularized sound flick...and the only thing evolves "little caesar" into everlasting classic is robinson's chrismatic screen persona. -
MCT:November 24, 2007
What passed for "dramatic pause" in 1930 seems like an actor struggling to remember his lines today. Fans of the genre, fans of Edward G. Robinson, and classic movie fans in general will adore this little piece of Hollywood history. Others might find it dated and unintentionally funny.
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MCT:October 11, 2007
A film that charts the rise and inevitable fall of a gangster. hugely influential on numerous modern classics that use a similar narrative thread. At times, however, the editing and cinematography is very stilted. Still, more than worth seeing for Edward G Robinson's manic performance with some cracking lines.
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MCT:September 30, 2007
The film that made Edgar G. Robinson a star. He plays a little badass thug who wants to "be somebody" and does as he moves through the ranks of gansters and eventually displaces the mob boss he once idolized. The only real problem I had with it was hearing Robinson's characteristic voice and realizing how accurately all the impersonators did him over the years. It was a bit distracting. I prefer Jimmy Cagney in "Public Enemy" to this, as Cagney had more of a vicious streak than Robinsion, but this stands up well on its own.
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MCT:August 1, 2007
After The Godfather, Goodfellas, and The Departed this is perhaps the best gangster picture ever made. Its the one that started the whole genre and naturally I was interested. Pretty good flick.
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MCT:January 30, 2007
"You've got so, that you can dish it out but you can't take it no more", Edward G. Robinson's portrayal of the rise and fall of a tough hoodlum (largely based on Al Capone) is superb. From the tuxedo to the cigar chomping, this film is no doubt a quintessential gangster film.
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