Short gangsters

The Big Four of gangster movies from the 1930s were George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson. Raft, Cagney and Robinson were 5 feet 7 inches tall, and Bogart was 5 feet 8 inches. So none of them was into what was really considered leading man stature, even though all of them were major stars. I guess gangsters just had to be short.