Little Cigars is a movie released in 1973 by American International Pictures

American International Pictures

American International Pictures was a film production company formed in April 1956 from American Releasing Corporation by James H. Nicholson, former Sales Manager of Realart Pictures, and Samuel Z. Arkoff, an entertainment lawyer...

, about a gang of midgets who team up with a gangster's mistress, played by Golden Globe nominee Angel Tompkins

Angel Tompkins

Angel Tompkins is an American actress and Golden Globe nominee, who appeared in several films and television shows.-Career:...

, to go on a crime spree. "Cleo", the gangster's mistress, was played by Tompkins shortly after her nomination and appearance in "Playboy" (an off-shoot of her appearance in "Prime Cut" where she played opposite Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman), owing to the lack of parts available to her and indirectly to any woman of her beauty; the business of film making had entered the "Slice of Life", "Real People" paradigm in the early seventies. The film also features Billy Curtis

Billy Curtis

Billy Curtis was an American film and television actor. He was a dwarf who had a 50-year career in a variety of roles...

 and Jerry Maren

Jerry Maren

Jerry Maren is an American actor and one of only three confirmed surviving dwarf munchkins from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. The other two surviving munchkin cast members are Margaret Williams Pellegrini and Ruth Robinson Duccini, making Maren the last surviving male Munchkin from the...

, both of whom also played Munchkins in the Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)

The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed primarily by Victor Fleming. Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, but there were uncredited contributions by others. The lyrics for the songs...

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When released in the United States, the title of the film was The Little Cigars Mob.