Little Caesar (film) released, author Burnett apparently drew the same conclusion about the screen version of the character. Having written Rico as explicitly heterosexual in his novel, Burnett wrote a letter of complaint to the film's producers about the conversion of the character to gay in the screen adaptation. According to Warner Bros records the film earned $647,000 domestically and $105,000 foreign. Little Caesar (film) Little Caesar is a 1931 American pre-Code crime film distributed by Warner Brothers, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, and starring Edward G. Robinson, Glenda Farrell, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. The film tells the story of a hoodlum who ascends
As I Lay Dying (film) As I Lay Dying (film) As I Lay Dying is a 2013 American drama film directed and co-written by and starring James Franco, based on William Faulkner's novel of the same name published in 1930. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard Section at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. The story is based on the loss of a mother and the struggles the family endure by going the distance to her burial ground in her home town. James Franco decided to write a screenplay of the novel with a fellow Yale graduate student Matt Rager. The novel "As