Little Caesar (1931) - 8pm est
Posted on 05/21/2013 9:45:14 AM PDT by Vision
This is your Turner Classic Movie channel alert!
Tonight...Little Caesar (1931), 8pm est
"A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?"
Overview & Cast
That could be the Obama biography in a nutshell ! (and is in Chicago as well !)
A definite watch...
My grandfather was never a ‘movie’ person. He was more into news and non-fiction. Didn’t care about films one tiny bit. But when he did get on a rare nostalgic riff in regards to movies, he never cited any movie later than about 1931. “Little Caesar” was one of those he often mentioned. Seemed to leave quite an impression on him. “Min and Bill” with Wallace Beery was another.
I love Edward G. Robinson. One of America’s greatest actors.
I thought he ended his career doing commercials for Folgers coffee...
The last time I saw him he was being dumped into a vat to be processed into Soylent Green. Charlton Heston followed the truck full of the dead.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/?ref_=sr_2
Check out the “spoilers” at the end of the IMDB listing. Apparently Robinson died ten days after filming wrapped.
Something I remember reading about his role in “Little Caesar”...back then studios had not figured out how to adapt reciprocating firearms to work with blanks, and when filming the scene where his character is killed, the director told him to stand in scene while a live Thompson submachine gun was fired at a nearby target. Wisely, and over the objections of the director, Robinson refused to stand downrange of a live firing. The director ordered a “demonstration” to prove the actor wrong, and the bullets ricocheted and hit right where Robinson would have been standing in the scene.
As far as I can remember the only bad film he was in was a piece of dreck called SONG OF NORWAY. Even his good acting could not save that travesty.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066393/?ref_=sr_1
Reviews: “Adjectives fail this film. “Dreadful” isn’t enough. “Awful” seems mild. “Stupifyingly bad” can’t convey the experience of it, either.”
And it gets worse.
One of my favorite movies.
Interesting...
lol
One of my favorite Edgar G Robison movies was him
In Double Indemity.Great movie
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