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Julius Sizzer

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Julius Sizzer
Directed byEdward Ludwig
Written byEdward Ludwig
Benny Rubin
StarringSee below
Distributed byRKO Radio Pictures
Release date
  • September 7, 1931 (1931-09-07)
Running time
18 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Julius Sizzer (1931) is an American two-reel short film directed by Edward Ludwig. According to film critic Nelson Bell, it was an "obvious travesty" of the serious gangster film Little Caesar released by Warner Bros. earlier that year.[1]

Plot summary

In this short, (Benny Rubin) plays a dual role of a man and his brother who have to dodge gangsters trying to put them on the spot.[2][3]

Cast

References

  1. ^ Eric Loren Smoodin (1993). Animating Culture: Hollywood Cartoons from the Sound Era. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-8135-1949-4.
  2. ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0829208/
  3. ^ Edwin M. Bradley (2005). The First Hollywood Sound Shorts, 1926–1931. McFarland. p. 263. ISBN 978-1-4766-0684-2.