Edward G. Robinson made 14 films between 1930 and 1932. Robinson went to Universal for "Night Ride" (1930) and MGM for "A Lady to Love" (1930) directed by Victor Sjöström. At Universal he was in "Outside the Law" and "East Is West" (both 1930), then he did "The Widow from Chicago" (1931) at First National. Robinson was established as a film actor. What made him a star was an acclaimed performance as the gangster Caesar Enrico "Rico" Bandello in "Little Caesar" (1931) at Warner Bros. Robinson signed a long term contract with Warners. They put him in another gangster film, "Smart Money" (1931),
Words for the Dying by record labels Opal and Warner Bros. in the US and Europe and Land in the UK. It was reissued in 1992, and in 2005 with a different cover. Lou Reed selected the album as one of his 'picks of 1989'. In its retrospective review, "Fact" described it as "arguably the last great album John Cale recorded". In 1993 an 80-minute documentary film "Words for the Dying", directed by Rob Nilsson, was released on DVD. It follows Cale and Eno to Moscow, London, and Wales during the creation of the album. All tracks composed by John Cale, except as indicated.