THE HOLE IN THE WALL.
Edward G Robinson & Claudette Colbert,
David Newell, Nelly Savage, Donald Meek.
Dir: Robert Flory, 1929, Paramount.

SYNOPSIS:
Eddy Robinson sets himself up for a lifetime in crime by playing a gangster in this very, very early movie about a lovely, phony fortune teller who plots a revenge scheme.

"Robinson was reminded right away that film salaries were bigger than stage ones. He played a gangster called The Fox who is in love with Claudette Colbert, a woman seeking revenge against a matron who had her jailed for kidnapping the matron's daughter. The Fox eventually turns himself in so that Colbert can marry the newspaper reporter she really loves. In his first major screen role Robinson did not get the girl."
- Alan Gansberg, E G Robinson biographer.

REVIEWS:
"Involved melodrama, a primitive talkie notable chiefly for its stars."
- Leslie Halliwell.