The Last Gangster (1937)

Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, Rosa Stradner, Lionel Stander, Douglas Scott ... see more  , John Carradine , Sidney Blackmer , Grant Mitchell , Edward S. Brophy , Alan Baxter , Louise Beavers , Billy Boy Arnold , Don 'Red' Barry , William Benedict , Brooks Benedict , Joan Blondell , Wade Boteler , Frederick Burton , Shirley Chambers , Charles Coleman , Eddie Foster , Al Hill , Arthur Howard , Cy Kendall , Priscilla Lawson , Horace McMahon , George Magrill , Douglas McPhail , Ivan Miller , Walter Miller , Broderick O'Farrell , Moroni Olsen , Eddie Parker , Edward Pawley , Lee Phelps , Lee Powell , Cyril Ring , Willard Robertson , Larry Simms , Charles Sullivan , Phillip Terry , Fredrik Vogeding , Pierre Watkin , Ben Welden , Huey White , Ernest Wood , William Arnold , Frank Conroy , John Kelly , Jack Pennick , Martin Turner , Victor Adams , Sam Finn , Mitchell Ingraham , Jerry Jerome , Allen Mathews , Reggie Streeter , David Tillotson , Edward Marr , Billy Ray Smith , Rose Stradner

Edward G. Robinson offers an excellent turn as a crime lord obsessed with the welfare of his son in this melodramatic crime story. The lad is born while the notorious Robinson serves 10 years. Unfortu... read more nately, the press hound the babies mother and constantly derider her until a kinder reporter takes pity and begins writing stories to support her. This angers his editor who fires him. One day Robinson's wife goes to visit him and he behaves like a brute. She is so shocked that she ends her marriage and hooks up with the reporter. Together, they move far away to start successful new lives. A decade later, Robinson gets out and begins searching for his boy. Unfortunately, he also gets talked into his gangster activities by an old cohort. The gang, however turns on him and forces him to reveal the location of a large cache of loot that he hid before entering the slammer. Tough old Robinson won't tell them, so they kidnap his son.Fortunately, Robinson and the lad escape. The gangster tries to get to know his boy, but the child wants nothing to do with him. Angered, Robinson swears vengeance upon his ex and her new spouse. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi