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The Little Giant

"Little Caesar" Swaps Dames for Debs...Beer Trucks for Tea Cups!
May 20, 1933 · 1h 16m
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Crime
Comedy

PLOT

Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.

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CAST

Edward G. Robinson
James Francis 'Bugs' / 'Jim' Ahearn
Mary Astor
Ruth Wayburn
Helen Vinson
Polly Cass
Russell Hopton
Albert J. 'Al' Daniels
Kenneth Thomson
John Stanley
Shirley Grey
Edith Merriam
Berton Churchill
Donald Hadley Cass
Don Dillaway
Gordon Cass
Directed by Roy Del Ruth

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
First National Pictures, The Vitaphone Corporation
Country
US

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