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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0883929011841
Format: NTSC, Black & White
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Running Time: 75 minutes
Sales Rank: 73839
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1933
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The era of the bootlegger is past but liquor runner Bugs Ahearn (Edward G. Robinson) has a plan for what he'll do now that Prohibition is history. He decides to head for California's posh, polo-playing Santa Barbara to become part of the high society. What he finds there -- swindlers, gold diggers, great fun -- makes first class entertainment in this pre-Code gem. Edward G. Robinson shows his comedic chops for the first time, paving the way for such subsequent films as A Slight Case of Murder, Brother Orchid, Larceny, Inc. and more persona-skewering frolics.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Standard Warner's programmer
"The Little Giant" is a typical Warner Brothers pre-code programmer. Starring the then hot Edward G Robinson, who had become a big star due to his ground breaking performance in "Little Caesar", this film uses that persona but moves into farce as the Chicago beer baron goes straight and enters high society in California. Warners churned such films as this out and the film has the following features:
- a screenplay which is certainly entertaining but not really funny.
- a competent ... Read More
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