OUTSIDE THE LAW.
Edward G Robinson & Mary Nolan, Owen Moore.
Dir: Tod Browning, 1930, Universal.

SYNOPSIS:
Early, incompetent, scratchy, sketchy movie with the actors not seeming to know where the bank robbery plot is going.

"Hollywood conversation seemed vacuous to Robinson - meaningless gossip and chitchat about the industry. He felt superior. Still, he liked the money. After A Lady to Love was finished he accepted Universal's offer to make Outside the Law. One more picture, and one more weekly cheque for $2, 500 wouldn't hurt, but artistically he was unhappy. Robinson was a hood named Cobra Collins, who (setting a pattern for future films) dies at the end of the picture."
- Alan Gansberg, E G Robinson biographer.

REVIEWS:
"One of the worst examples of claptrap since sound came in... no continuity and the director lets the cast run wild."
- Variety.