The Little Giant

Quick gangster spoof starring Robinson in a role satirizing the parts he'd been playing for real. This was Robinson's first comedic effort, and he proved he could handle it well. Robinson is a Chicago beer magnate about to go bust because Roosevelt has been elected and Prohibition has been repealed. Rather than find new illegal ways to make a buck, he decides to pull up stakes and move to Santa Barbara and a new life dedicated to the proposition that all polo ponies are created equal. Having left ChiTown with lots of money and very little class, he attempts to crack the Montecito moguls, but they see right through him. Vinson, a wealthy young woman, takes him to me...