Little Caesar (film) portrayals that stretched up to 1968's "Never a Dull Moment". Robinson occasionally parodied his "Little Caesar" gangster persona, as in the 1933 film "The Little Giant." The box office triumph of "Little Caesar" also spawned the production of several successful gangster films, many of which were also made by Warner Brothers. This is an example of Hollywood self-censorship during the pre-Code era: in the novel the line reads "Mother of God, is this the end of Rico?", and a take was filmed with Robinson saying it verbatim. However, the studio worried that some state and local censors would insist that
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.