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 G. Robinson the Man" (1916). In 1923 made his named debut as "E. G. Robinson" in the silent film, "The Bright Shawl". He played a snarling gangster in the 1927 Broadway police/crime drama "The Racket", which led to his being cast in similar film roles, beginning with "The Hole in the Wall" (1929) with Claudette Colbert for Paramount. Paramount then cast him in a comedy, "The Kibitzer" (1930). One of many actors who saw his career flourish in the new sound film era rather than falter, he made only three films prior to 1930, but left his stage career that year and