Film · Warner Bros. · 1931
Pass it on
Little Caesar
28Leave it.
He gets to be the boss, and there is nobody left when he arrives.
Take controlThis scores 28. Little Caesar cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it
The review
Robinson plays a small man from the sticks whose want is to be big. He decides to be the boss of a city gang. He gets there. He ends alone. Adult. The killings can stay undescribed. Nothing else is a life, and that truth is sitting right there. The picture still opened the gangster cycle, so the climb was the pleasure too.
Not a family film, and not the year's biggest, which does not make it mild. I would not leave it on for anyone who likes watching a man get big. If it plays after the kids are down, we say the arrival is solitude. Crowds kept the getting there. I am too tired to clap for that.
Journal
Keep Little Caesar in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 28. Yours can differ.
The glance
Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Fargo
40 instead of 28
Fargo is still a crime film, and it scores 40 instead of 28. What you gain is industry: A dealership, a police job, a crime that is mostly incompetence.
The eight
- 2Industry
No straight job; the only work he wants is being the boss.
- 1Household
He ends alone, and the film says nothing else is a life.
- 2Piety
Nothing checks the want to be big before he is left alone.
- 3Courage
The climb risks a life he never had, so little is truly risked.
- 3Republic
He takes a city's gang and owes that city nothing back.
- 2Temperance
Being big is the want, and the cycle teaches the next climb.
- 7Truth
He gets the top and ends alone, which is the bill for the want.
- 2Stewardship
The cycle of boss pictures is what this hit left behind.
Where to watch
Finding the page.
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