| Like many early talkies, this film alternates between stretches of awkward pantomime and stretches of clumsy dialogue. |
| Tune back to the early days of talkies, and remember an era before television. |
| Likewise, when talkies replaced silent movies, many stars of the earlier era were unable to adapt and became human relics. |
| The ubiquitous Tully Marshall plays the grizzled sidekick role, showing much more range as an actor in talkies than he had in silents. |
| The talkies had arrived a decade earlier and, although British films were still popular, American culture was starting to influence us. |
| Like most films of its day, Little Caesar reflects the awkward transition from the era of silents to the new age of talkies. |
