ILLEGAL.
Edward G Robinson & Nina Foch, Jayne Mansfield.
Dir: Lewis Allen, 1955, Warner Bros.
Written by Little Caesar author, W R Burnett.

SYNOPSIS:
A mob boss loses control of his lawyer and gets sent down by him in the end.

"Of course his hearing was going. At one point I was trying to give him instructions and I just wasn't getting through. Eddie Jr leaned over and told him to put in his hearing aid. He'd always call me 'kid' or 'a goddamn fucking machine' if I wanted to work too hard or too quickly. And I'll always remember that no one could steal a scene better than Robinson. He'd make a move or something and Marty would say to me: 'Watch him, watch him.' Marty would say that scene stealing was taught in the Yiddish Theater - but Eddy didn't act in the Yiddish Theater. He just knew the cameras. I don't think he even realised it."
- Wally Grauman, producer and director.

REVIEWS:
"Hard hitting stuff in the old gangster tradition."
- MFB. (whatever that is?)