To movie audiences of the time, however, who saw the star’s name on the marquee and expected a gritty crime drama (after all, two of Robinson’s most recent gangster flicks were titled Bullets or Ballots and The Amazing Dr. Paul Ehrlich in director William Dieterle’s biopic Dr. Robinson or James Cagney and the historical biodrama, in which either George Arliss or Paul Muni seemed to play every notable politician, author or inventor of the previous two centuries. As such, it should come as no surprise that in 1940 the studio decided to combine elements of both, casting the hard-boiled Robinson as Dr. studio could pin much of its success on specializing in two seemingly incongruous film varieties: the guns-a-blazin’ gangster tale, usually starring Edward G. You can find a complete list of participating sites here.īy the end of the 1930s the Warner Bros.

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