The Little Giant (1933)
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The end of prohibition spells the end of business as usual for Chicago gangster Bugs Ahearn (Edward G. Robinson in this delightful spoof of mob melodramas from Warner Bros. Paying off their latest moll, Edith (Shirley Grey, Bugs and chief lieutenant Al Daniels (Russell Hopton) grab their ill-gotten gains and go west, hoping to crash polo playing Santa Barbara society. Bugs acquires a rental mansion and a high class girlfriend, Polly Cass (Helen Vinson), but the estate actually belongs to kind but down-on-her-luck socialite Ruth Wayburn (Mary Astor) -- whom the former mobster retains as his social secretary -- while Polly and her relatives prove to be bigger crooks than he ever was. The Little Giant was reportedly filmed in 18 days on a budget of $197,000. ~ Hans J. Wollstein, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Edward G. Robinson - James Francis "Bugs" Aheam
- Helen Vinson - Polly Cass
- Shirley Grey - Edith Merriam
- Berton Churchill - Donald Hadley Cass
- Louise Mackintosh - Mrs. Cass
- Bonnie Bannon - Society girl
- Sidney Bracey - Butler
- Selmar Jackson - Radio Announcer
- Harry Tenbrook - Pulido
- Barbara Rogers - Society girl
- Lorin Raker - Investment Clerk
- Adrian Morris - Joe Milano's Hoods
- Jayne Shadduck - Society girl
- Maxine Cantway - Society girl
- Loretta Andrews - Society girl
- Toby Wing - Society girl
- Renee Whitney - Society girl
- Alice Jans - Society girl
- Lester Dorr - Investment Clerk
- Leonard Carey - Ingelby
- Mary Astor - Ruth Wayburn
- Ken Thomson - John Stanley
- Russell Hopton - Al Daniels
- Donald Dillaway - Gordon Cass
- Helen Mann - Frankie
- Joan Barclay - Society girl
- William "Wild Bill" Elliott - Guest
- Guy Usher - Detective
- Rolfe Sedan - Waiter
- Dewey Robinson - Butch Zanwutoski
- Bob Perry - Joe Milano's hoods
- John Marston - Prosecutor
- Margaret La Marr - Society girl
- Lynn Browning - Society girl
- John Kelly - Ed (Tim)
- Pat Wing - Society Girl
- Lorena Layson - Society girl
- Anne Hovey - Society girl
- Charles Coleman - Charteris
- Nora Cecil - Maid
- Director(s):
- Roy Del Ruth
- Writer(s):
- Robert Lord, Wilson Mizner
- Producer(s):
- Raymond Griffith
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