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The highlight of Warner's latest gangster collection is the best film since Vol. 1--the 1937 Kid Galahad. This is a terrific picture, among the studio's most satisfying offerings of the '30s, with unlikely co-stars Edward G. Robinson and Bette Davis establishing warm rapport as a fight promoter and his longtime lady friend, and director Michael Curtiz in championship form. Although it's only secondarily a gangster film--boxing and affairs of the heart top the bill--the potential for gangland violence is never far away thanks to Humphrey Bogart's steely malevolence as a rival boxing manager. Also featured are Wayne Morris, ingratiating as the farmboy who becomes Robinson's new fighter; Harry Carey as his trainer; and Jane Bryan--a Warner player who could do sweet and radiant without becoming cloying--as Robinson's young sister. Both she and city girl Davis--known in her social circle as "Fluff"--fall in love with Galahad, and the scene when they deal with that is smartly written (by Seton I. Miller) and played. Vol. 4 is virtually an Edward G. Robinson collection, since he stars in all but one of the movies. The set's other gem is The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938), an atypically glossy item with Robinson wonderfully droll as a Park Avenue doctor moonlighting as a jewel thief. He's doing research for a book on criminals, which leads to his becoming "the Professor," the brains behind a gang run by Claire Trevor and Humphrey Bogart (and including Allen Jenkins, Maxie Rosenbloom, Ward Bond, and Vladimir Sokoloff). Directed by Anatole Litvak, the movie's a milestone of sorts in the career of another filmmaker: co-screenwriter John Huston. Its coziness with criminality as "a left-handed form of human endeavor" anticipates Huston's great The Asphalt Jungle. Also, the picture marks his first association with Bogart, whose stardom he'd help to shape. And Bogart, Robinson, and Trevor would all be reunited under Huston's direction on Key Largo.
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse has its dark side; The Little Giant and Larceny, Inc. are broad comedies pure and simple. From the outset, Robinson chafed against his stereotyping in gangster roles, and The Little Giant (1933), as the title suggests, gave him the chance to turn "Little Caesar" on his head. With Franklin D. Roosevelt's election spelling doom for the bootlegging business, "Bugs" Ahern (Eddie G.) retires from mob life to get some culture and mingle with the swells on the polo fields of California. Roy Del Ruth directed, albeit with less pizzazz than usual. Larceny, Inc. (1942) finds newly paroled convicts Robinson and Broderick Crawford taking over a Manhattan luggage store that happens to sit next to a bank that, alas, economic setback may compel them to rob. The movie has its charms--inconveniently for their plans, the guys' business becomes a success and sparks a revival of their Gotham neighborhood--but it's distinctly inferior to the other gangster comedies in which Lloyd Bacon directed Robinson, A Slight Case of Murder (in Vol. 2) and Brother Orchid (Vol. 3). This was the final film Robinson made under
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