Little Caesar

Part of our ongoing series Wild, Weird Wicked: Films from Before the Code!

A classic story: a small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune. The gangster film that started them all, the picture that launched a million bad impressions of its leading man, Edward G. Robinson stars as Caesar Enrico “Rico” Bandello in Mervyn LeRoy‘s Little Caesar, based on the best-selling novel of the same name.