It may be controversial when a person moves from one place to another completely different. This story begins with the little ambition of Rico, who tried to make a name for himself in the other world, but his friend Joe decides to leave the life of crime and commercial ventures in the works of the show through a dancer. One day, Joe meets the beautiful dancer Olga, where things do not seem to be going well. Rico asks Joe to leave his mistress who came in that period, but things change when she makes a serious decision.
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.
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.
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.
