Editing Edward G. Robinson (section)

===Post-Warner Bros.===
Robinson was one of several stars in ''[[Tales of Manhattan]]'' (1942) and ''[[Flesh and Fantasy]]'' (1943).

He did war films: ''[[Destroyer (1943 film)|Destroyer]]'' (1943) at [[Columbia Pictures|Columbia]], and ''[[Tampico (film)|Tampico]]'' (1944) at [[20th Century Fox|Fox]]. At Paramount, he was in [[Billy Wilder]]'s ''[[Double Indemnity]]'' (1944), with [[Fred MacMurray]] and [[Barbara Stanwyck]], where his riveting soliloquy on insurance actuarial tables (written by [[Raymond Chandler]]) is considered a career showstopper;{{clarify|date=August 2022}} and at Columbia, he was in ''[[Mr. Winkle Goes to War]]'' (1944). He then performed with [[Joan Bennett]] and [[Dan Duryea]] in [[Fritz Lang]]'s ''[[The Woman in the Window (1944 film)|The Woman in the Window]]'' (1944), and ''[[Scarlet Street]]'' (1945), where he played a criminal painter.

At MGM, he was in ''[[Our Vines Have Tender Grapes]]'' (1945), and then [[Orson Welles]]' ''[[The Stranger (1946 film)|The Stranger]]'' (1946), with Welles and [[Loretta Young]]. Robinson followed it with another thriller, ''[[The Red House (film)|The Red House]]'' (1947), and starred in an adaptation of ''[[All My Sons (film)|All My Sons]]'' (1948).

Robinson appeared for director [[John Huston]] as the gangster Johnny Rocco in ''[[Key Largo (film)|Key Largo]]'' (1948), the last of five films that he made with [[Humphrey Bogart]], and the only one in which Robinson played a supporting role to Bogart's character in the film. It is also the only film with Bogart where Bogart's character killed Robinson's character in a gunfight, instead of the opposite. Around the same time, he was cast in starring roles for ''[[Night Has a Thousand Eyes]]'' (1948) and ''[[House of Strangers]]'' (1949).