The Little Giant (1933)

Directed by Roy Del Ruth
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner Bros)

Edward G. Robinson gives up his gangster life in Chicago after Prohibition is repealed. He goes to southern California to be a "sportsman" in High Society. It's a fish-out-of-water story as he falls in love with a rich girl who is only after his money. He buys a mansion and has swanky parties all to impress her. All along, it's his live-in "assistant" that he is really falling in love with. When he is duped of all his money, he calls on his old Chicago pals to get it back the old fashioned way, extortion. The final scene shows the hard-boiled gangsters on horses playing polo.