"You can dish it out, but you got so you can't take it no more. "Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Take the proverbs "Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall" and bowl in down into the windy streets and back room cigars of Chicago, the climbing ground for the brutally ambitious criminal Rico, more notoriously known as Little Caesar. Widely successful after its release, the movie really is a killer. It's everything you could ever want in a gangster movie, everything the modern greats were built upon, ranked #9 on the American Film Institute's list of the 10 greatest films in the genre "Gangster" in June 2008.
Amusing observation, later affirmed by imdb: despite the characters speaking with rusty Italian drawl with names like "Joe Massara", "Tony Passa", "Sam Vettori", and "Ritz Colonna", none of the actors really seem to be actually Italian (this is no insult to their acting or film presence, that's all grand).
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