The Little Giant - Original Trailer 1933 Video

The end of prohibition spells the end of business as usual for Chicago gangster Bugs Ahearn (Edward G. Robinson in this delightful spoof of mob melodramas from Warner Bros. Paying off their latest moll, Edith (Shirley Grey, Bugs and chief lieutenant Al Daniels (Russell Hopton) grab their ill-gotten gains and go west, hoping to crash polo playing Santa Barbara society. Bugs acquires a rental mansion and a high class girlfriend, Polly Cass (Helen Vinson), but the estate actually belongs to kind but down-on-her-luck socialite Ruth Wayburn (Mary Astor) -- whom the former mobster retains as his social secretary -- while Polly and her relatives prove to be bigger crooks than he ever was. The Little Giant was reportedly filmed in 18 days on a budget of $197,000.

Edward G. Robinson - James Francis "Bugs" Aheam
Mary Astor - Ruth Wayburn
Helen Vinson - Polly Cass
Ken Thomson - John Stanley
Shirley Grey - Edith Merriam
Russell Hopton - Al Daniels
Berton Churchill - Donald Hadley Cass
Donald Dillaway - Gordon Cass
Louise Mackintosh - Mrs. Cass
Helen Mann - Frankie
Loretta Andrews - Society girl
Bonnie Bannon - Society girl
Joan Barclay - Society girl
Sidney Bracey - Butler
Lynn Browning - Society girl
Maxine Cantway - Society girl
Leonard Carey - Ingelby
Nora Cecil - Maid
Charles Coleman - Charteris
Lester Dorr - Investment Clerk
William "Wild Bill" Elliott - Guest
Anne Hovey - Society girl
Selmar Jackson - Radio Announcer [Voice]
Alice Jans - Society girl
John Kelly - Ed (Tim)
Margaret La Marr - Society girl
Lorena Layson - Society girl
John Marston - Prosecutor
Adrian Morris - Joe Milano's Hoods
Bob Perry - Joe Milano's hoods
Lorin Raker - Investment Clerk
Dewey Robinson - Butch Zanwutoski
Barbara Rogers - Society girl
Rolfe Sedan - Waiter
Jayne Shadduck - Society girl
Harry Tenbrook - Pulido
Guy Usher - Detective
Renee Whitney - Society girl
Pat Wing - Society Girl
Toby Wing - Society girl