In a conversation that Edward G. Robinson had with a newspaper writer in Hollywood, he explained that he hoped that the next picture will be the latest gangster picture that he needs to play in. His next picture is "Two Seconds." In the first scene we see him in the electric chair, In the two minutes it takes to prepare for the execution, his entire life runs through his brain. And here the scenes that run past are his thoughts, playing out live. The talkie ends with this, we seem him on the "screen" in the electric chair, a victim who dies for his crimes.

Robinson hopes  that with the execution it will end his gangster roles. On the stage in new York Robinson played all kinds of roles, some of them lyrical, soft, gentle, like his role in "The Kibitzer," or in "Goat Song." In Hollywood, however, they had him create for a "Little Caesar," a gangster, a throat-cutter. He already has the roles.

Robinson plays the underworld heroes so realistically, that there are those in America who consider him such a type in life as well. Of course this gives him no pleasure.

Robinson is a good artist, an actor with rare abilities. He does not want to play one and the same role. He also wants to create for the camera other types and characters. He knows it.  Hollywood meanwhile has not given him the opportunity, and he hopes to get it.

It is interesting that  Robinson's success has evoked quite a bit of rivalry in the movie colony. Malicious tongues have tried to provoke certain stars with gossip about him, spreading rumors that Robinson spoke of them with contempt. It has gone so far that Robinson found it necessary to issue a statement that the acts were false, intentional slander.