Little Caesar

Little Caesar

  • Director: Mervyn LeRoy
  • Writer: W.R. Burnett,Francis Edward Faragoh,Robert N. Lee
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: January 25, 1931
  • Also known as: Mali Cezar
  • "Little Caesar" is directed by Melvin Leroy, Edward G. Robinson , Glenda Farrell and other crime drama.
    The film tells the story of a gangster who is unscrupulous in the underworld organization and becomes the leader of the underworld who dominates one side.

    Details

    • Release date January 25, 1931
    • Filming locations Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
    • Production companies First National Pictures

    Movie reviews

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    • By Nora 2022-03-14 08:01:02

      A good movie is worth watching

      At the end, Rico dies behind a huge poster. This poster is a poster of Joe and his girlfriend who Rico couldn't bear to kill. It's a powerful ending that contrasts the two different results. But two explanations can be made, the positive ones: the bad ones can die tragically, while the good ones Joe and his girlfriend are prosperous. The negative ones don't kill Joe, but put themselves in a dead end, and Joe not only He didn't repay Qiao for not killing him, and he still...

    • By Thomas 2022-03-14 08:01:02

      little caesar

      The 1930 gangster film Little Caesar. In the early days of sound films, recording equipment and cameras were both cumbersome, with little camera movement, only panning shots and a small amount of tracking (because there was a large box to hide the camera to cover its noise, and it was not easy to shoot when moving the lens), which also restricted the actors’ movement. , the scope of activities is limited, and the above all make the picture ugly: the camera and actors have less movement, and the...

    • By Telly 2022-03-14 08:01:02

      From 'Little Caesar': The Original Gangster Movie

      "Little Caesar" (1931), directed by Melvin Leroy, can be said to be the pioneering work of "gangster films" after the beginning of sound films. This film starring Robinson Edward, a small man from Romania, has influenced generations. In addition to the attractive plot in the film, a large part is due to Edward's passionate performance. At the centennial celebration of film, he was named by the American Film Institute as one of the thirty greatest stars in American film history....

    • By Keith 2022-03-14 08:01:02

      The pioneering work of 'film noir'

      The theme of the film is actually - "choice". The choice of "Little Caesar" is that in the underground order of the underworld, he will constantly endure the seemingly endless test of blood and rain, and his goal is to become a feared "big brother of the underworld". The final result is to die on the street, not a good death. His former "good friend" Joe chose to stay away from the underworld, and finally realized his dream of becoming a professional dancer. The metaphor of either black or...

    • By Clara 2022-03-14 08:01:02

      the director said

      The history of American gangster or crime films can be traced back to Griffith's time. His 1913 film "The Swordsman of the Poor Lane" is considered the first gangster film in American cinema. Later, Sternberg's "Underworld" can be said to be an earlier depiction of the gangster career that appeared during the period of Prohibition and the Great Depression in the United States. But for American audiences and film historians alike, the basic pattern of the gangster genre seems to have popped...

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    • By Nico 2022-03-28 09:01:13

      The pioneering work of the gangster film is to have tears in his eyes, and he is reluctant to pour the blood on him. And a girl happily ever after is about the movie's affirmation of moral models, gangsters can't enjoy normal...

    • By Casey 2022-03-28 09:01:13

      Without the aura of "gangster movie pioneering", this movie is not very worth watching. In addition, you can see the abridged version, which is also...

    • By Elvie 2022-03-28 09:01:13

      The older, more boring, classic gangster films that laid the foundations of the genre have no personality...

    • By Eloy 2022-03-27 09:01:21

      I said why Joe is so good-looking, it turned out to be a little Fairbank. I really like the slow-talking policeman! But the story is pretty boring, the montage of the New Year's Eve robbery and the close-up of Caesar's confrontation with Joe are more...

    • By Willis 2022-03-27 09:01:21

      Rico's face looks like a swelled bread~~~Im not infatuated with this genre at...

    Movie plot

    Edward Kee Robinson plays a gangster who climbs up by any means in the underworld organization, joins forces with a gangster who grows up with Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and finally becomes the leading underworld leader who dominates one side.
    The film begins with a banquet where Edward G. Robinson (Caesar Enrico Pandolo) and Douglas Fairbanks (Joey Marsala) talk about what a big city is like. Enrico wants to be a big gangster, Joey wants...
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    Movie quotes

    • Olga Stassoff: That gang must go. Rico must go. I want my happiness, Joe. I want you. We'll never have peace till Rico's gone.

    • Joe Massara: It's the rope for me.

    • Sgt. Tom Flaherty: Round up that Palermo gang. I got enough on them to use a mile of rope. Shoot the cars right out, and above all, get Rico.