Cinema: Little Caesar's Busy Days

Edward G. Robinson was sitting idly around Hollywood with that wonderfully rubbery sneer of a face, so a couple of moviemakers had the gall to divide Little Caesar into two crumby parts.

Black Tuesday (United Artists) stars Robinson as a Big Caesar. He's in the death house, see? But on execution night, his moll (Jean Parker) has planned a daring jail break. Everything will go well, if only that Negro down the hall stops his constant wailing of the blues. There is also another condemned prisoner, and Eddie will take him along, because this guy knows where to find 200 Gs. Then,...

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