The Little Giant (1933)

After the repeal of prohibition, a Chicago gangster (Edward G. Robinson) decides to go straight and using the profits from his bootlegging years, he heads to Santa Barbara, California to break into respectable society. He's a babe in the woods however as a gold digging heiress (Helen Vinson, I WAS A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG) whose family is near bankruptcy sinks her claws into him. Directed by Roy Del Ruth, this is an amusing "fish out of water" comedy. Robinson displays some fine comedy chops and there's a rugged sweetness about him that's charming, even when threatening to put his foot down the throat of a dowager. With Mary Astor as the financially strapped heiress that rents her mansion to Robinson and Russell Hopton as Robinson's humorous sidekick.