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
Edward Robinson (scholar) in English and German. Among those who later acknowledged Robinson’s stature, in 1941 G. Ernest Wright, reviewing the pioneering survey contained in Nelson Glueck's "The Other Side of the Jordan", makes a just comparison and fitting testimonial: "Glueck's explorations are second to none, unless it is those of Edward Robinson." Robinson edited and translated: He revised: Edward Robinson (scholar) Edward Robinson (April 10, 1794 – January 27, 1863) was an American biblical scholar. He studied in the United States and Germany, a center of biblical scholarship and exploration of the Bible as history. He translated scriptural works from classical languages,