While the definitive image of the mob and crime movie today has been largely painted by the American New Wave of the 1970s - more specifically in the films of Scorsese, Coppola, and Brian De Palma ...
The first film in this new genre, Little Caesar, depicted the rise of a small-town mobster to the upper echelons of organized crime. Appearing in 1930, it starred Edward G. Robinson as Caesar ...