Word: stickups
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...Chicago, Ill., Mr. & Mrs. John Pappas and Christ Kratcikas were listening to a radio-broadcast account of a holdup. Said John Pappas: "Say, no stickup guys could stick me up." Just then entered three well-armed thugs. John Pappas and Christ Kratcikas nervously put up their hands. Mrs. Ruth Pappas, with upraised arm, edged toward a shelf, seized a pistol, fired. One thug fell dead. A second howled, dived under a bed, popped up on the other side, leaped from the window. The third grabbed his fallen confederate, fled...
...made his role the supreme embodiment of a type. He is helped by Mervyn Leroy's fine directing and by the fact that W. R. Burnett's story was comprehensive, telling the whole of the gangster's life. You see Little Caesar starting in business as a low-grade stickup man whose specialty is robbing gasoline stations. He works his way up step by step in the outlaw gang-civilization of a big city. Only one man, the mysterious "Big Boy" is higher than he when his luck changes. He loses his power, his money, becomes a flophouse derelict...