The Little Giant

• 6.8 Crime
• 1933-05-20
• 76 minutes mins

Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as social secretary. He rescues Polly Cass from a horsefall and goes home to meet her dad who sells him some phony stock certificates. When he learns about this he sends to Chicago for mob help.

Starring:

Edward G. Robinson (James Francis 'Bugs' / 'Jim' Ahearn) Mary Astor (Ruth Wayburn) Helen Vinson (Polly Cass) Russell Hopton (Albert J. 'Al' Daniels) Kenneth Thomson (John Stanley) Shirley Grey (Edith Merriam) Berton Churchill (Donald Hadley Cass) Don Dillaway (Gordon Cass) Louise Mackintosh (Mrs. Donald Hadley Cass) Lester Dorr (Investment Clerk (uncredited))

Director:

Roy Del Ruth

Writer:

Robert Lord Wilson Mizner