The Last Gangster (DVD)

Like father like son. Gang kingpin Joe Krozac looks forward to the day his now-infant son will walk in his bloody footsteps and run his crime racket. The Feds have other ideas. They convict Joe of tax evasion and put him behind triple-steel bars for 10 years. During that time, Joe's wife divorces him, builds a reputable new life in another city with a new husband, raises her son and fears the day Joe may find them. He does. The Last Gangster stars one of the screen's first gangsters: Edward G. Robinson in snarling, imperial, brutal Little Caesar mode. James Stewart, on the cusp of renown, co-stars. And William A. Wellman, whose The Public Enemy matched Little Caesar in seminal gangster-era impact, co-wrote the film's story.

Starring: Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, Rose Stradner, Lionel Stander, Douglas Scott, John Carradine, Sidney Blackmer, Grant Mitchell, Edward S. Brophy, Alan Baxter, Frank Conroy, Louise Beavers, Moroni Olsen, Ivan Miller, Willard Robertson, Donald Barry, Ben Welden, Horace MacMahon, Edward Pawley, John Kelly, David Leo Tillotson, Dick Holland, Billy Smith, Douglas McPhail, Cy Kendall, Pierre Watkin, Phillip Terry, Fredrik Vogeding, Edward Marr, Walter Miller, Paul Sutton, E. Alyn Warren, Charles Coleman, Wade Boteler, Broderick O'Farrell, Mitchell Ingraham, Billy Arnold, Arthur Howard, Cyril Ring, Allen Mathews, Eddie Foster, Al Hill, Huey White, Sammy Finn, Charlie Sullivan, Brooks Benedict, Jack Raymond, Martin Turner, Chris Frank, Jack Cheatham, Orville Caldwell, Ted Oliver, Bill Hunter, Jack Gardner, Wally Maher, William Benedict, Larry Simms, Frederick Burton, Billy Dooley, Ernie Alexander, Don Roberts, Charles Sherlock, Harry Strang, Ernest Wood, Harry Lash, Frank Marlowe, Hal Craig, Ralph McCullough, Bert Moorhouse, Allen Fox, Nick Copeland, Lee Powell, Jack Stoney, Gene Coogan, Jerry Jerome, William Wagner, George Magrill, Priscilla Lawson, Shirley Chambers, Victor Adams, Dick Rush, Dick Allen

Rating: NR