Very good crime drama. The gangster with the big ego, small in stature, Joe Krozac(Edward G. Robinson)in spite of all the crime associated with him... goes to prison for ten years on a tax evasion charge. He previously brought back a wife Talya(Rose Stradner)from the old world. As he enters lock up he finds out she is pregnant. In prison Krozac is not the "mister big shot" he has been so accustomed to. For ten tears he is obsessed with meeting his son. While away his wife has divorced him and married a newspaper writer(James Stewart). She has also renamed her son. Krozac is released and his old gang roughs him up and humiliates him trying to find the location of his hidden money. They kidnap his son, since a beating doesn't get the results they want. Joe manages to return the boy home, but bonding is not successful. Very good atmospheric scenes. I most enjoyed the last several minutes of the movie that is shot in the rain. Robinson is always a top notch gangster. Stradner is neither attractive or effective. The young boy Douglas Scott is way too prissy to be interesting. Stewart is yet the big star. Others in the cast: Lionel Stander, John Carradine, Frank Conroy and Alan Baxter.
Review of The Last Gangster
The Last Gangster
(1937)
Edward G. Robinson does what he does well.
14 January 2008
Warning: Spoilers