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While ambitious small-time hood Rico makes a name for himself in the underworld, his buddy Joe decides to leave the life of crime and ventures into show business, where he meets the lovely dancer Olga. When Rico orders Joe to leave his mistress, she takes a serious decision.
4 July 1886, New York City, New York, USA
30 June 1904, Enid, Oklahoma, USA
12 February 1902, New York City, New York, USA
12 December 1893, Bucharest, Romania
13 July 1895, Salisbury, North Carolina, USA
18 May 1903, Lódz, Poland, Russian Empire [now Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland]
23 October 1887, Paris, France
14 January 1891, Queens, New York, USA
20 May 1883, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA
18 July 1900, Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
9 December 1909, New York City, New York, USA
16 January 1887, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
September 23, 2011
Faded bronze to The Public Enemy's silver and Scarface's gold, but an enduring bedrock formation all the same
February 09, 2006
Though it looks somewhat dated now, there's no denying the seminal importance of this classic adaptation of WR Burnett's novel.
May 24, 2003
The production is ordinary and would rank as just one more gangster film but for two things. One is the excellence of Mr. Burnett's credible and compact story. The other is Edward G. Robinson's wonderfully effective performance.
September 07, 2015
LeRoy's coldly efficient direction-due less to his own artistry than to the constraints of sound recording in its first years-imposes a static rigor on the action and lends the actor's diction and gestures a sculptural, granitic force.
January 01, 2000
Edward G. Robinson in the performance of his career.
January 27, 2005
Come for Rico, stay for Rico
January 25, 2005
One of the most popular and best received crime films ever.
February 07, 2005
Feels stilted when stacked up against its tougher depression-era contemporaries.
April 05, 2011
Little Caesar makes two classic LeRoy joints that I've found perfectly solid...and thoroughly underwhelming, especially when viewed through the prism of their reputations.
January 25, 2005
Robinson's riveting performance earned him a permanent place in the history of cinema.
October 31, 2007
No director could ask for more than Edward G. Robinson's contribution. Here, no matter what he has to say, he's entirely convincing.
July 04, 2013
Edward G. Robinson's gravelly snarl and sociopathic disdain for human conventions became the template for countless future gangster anti-heroes
