

The Little Giant
"Little Caesar" Swaps Dames for Debs...Beer Trucks for Tea Cups!
6.8(19 votes)
1933
1h 16m
Crime
Comedy
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.
Production
First National Pictures, The Vitaphone Corporation
Cast

Edward G. Robinson
James Francis 'Bugs' / 'Jim' Ahearn

Mary Astor
Ruth Wayburn

Helen Vinson
Polly Cass

Russell Hopton
Albert J. 'Al' Daniels

Kenneth Thomson
John Stanley

Shirley Grey
Edith Merriam

Berton Churchill
Donald Hadley Cass

Don Dillaway
Gordon Cass

Louise Mackintosh
Mrs. Donald Hadley Cass

Lester Dorr
Investment Clerk (uncredited)