THE LAST GANGSTER.
Edward G Robinson & Rose Stradner,
James Stewart, Lionel Stradner, John Carradine.
Dir: Edward Ludwig, 1937, MGM.

SYNOPSIS:
Head hood honcho gets sent down to Alcatraz while his gal sets up home with nice Jimmy Stewart. Sentimentality kicks in big time when Robinson gets released and seeks his revenge and his son. A weird one this, it's not quite sure of itself but it settles in nicely as one of the premier breed of mob movies.

"Eddy was a pro, et cetera, but he was also very jealous. He hated to have anyone taller than himself on a picture. He was very conscious of his height. I'm six feet one. Wellman had a terrible time moving the cameras to balance us. I was also a collector of paintings, so as I remember art dominated our conversations off the set. I was always telling him to buy new American artists. I kept telling him to quit buying that French Impressionist shit.'"
- Lionel Stradner.

REVIEWS:
"May indeed be the last gangster movie... a good film which will blossom at the box office."
- Variety.
"A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since Little Caesar, but Mr Robinson has breasted the tides to make his impersonation of a 1937 thug as persuasive as was his portrait of a killer in that early classic of rats and rackets."
- Frank Nugent.