Little Caesar (Mervyn LeRoy, 1931)

6/10
Sight & Sound had a great article about the gangster genre in this month's issue (due to the release of Public Enemies)and it got me interested in checking some out so I bought a box set of six Warner Bros gangster movies. This one is interesting enough, sort of a cautionary morality tale, which is interesting because the gangsters of the 20's were also regarded as these quasi Robin Hood type figures back then so I was curious to see where they would go with the story but they played it straight in the end. Although, to be sure, Little Caesar (the main character) is decidedly dishonorable and it wasn't much of a surprise to see him get his.