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Five Star Final is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film about the excesses of tabloid journalism directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Edward G. Robinson, Aline MacMahon (in her screen debut) and Boris Karloff.
Five Star Final: Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. With Edward G. Robinson, Marian Marsh, H.B. Warner, Anthony Bushell. The City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics to resurrect a twenty year old murder case... with tragic results.
To increase newsstand sales, "New York Evening Gazette" managing editor Joseph Randall (Edward G. Robinson) is pushed to revive a 20-year-old murder case involving Nancy Voorhees (Frances Starr...
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Five Star Final (1931) -- (Movie Clip) I Know What You Think Editor Randall (Edward G. Robinson) in the city room, when his secretary Miss Taylor (Aline MacMahon) returns looped from the speakeasy, in Five Star Final, 1931, from newsman Louis Weitzenkorn's play.
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Dec 2, 2003 · Five Star Final is perhaps the darkest in the cycle of journalist-themed films produced in Hollywood during the early 1930s . The central character, a self-destructive tabloid newspaper editor named Randall (Edward G. Robinson), manufactures so much enthusiasm for an assignment to dredge up the Nancy Voorhees case for a sure-fire hit serial ...
Five Star Final is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film about the excesses of tabloid journalism directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Edward G. Robinson, Aline MacMahon (in her screen debut) and Boris Karloff.
Five Star Final is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film about the excesses of tabloid journalism directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Edward G. Robinson, Aline MacMahon...
Sep 10, 2012 · Anthony Bushell. Boris Karloff. George E Stone. Ona Munson. Aline MacMahon. An email you’ll actually love. Much praised in its day as a biting attack on gutter journalism (one of dozens trotted...
The woman's daughter (Marian Marsh) is just about to marry the son (Anthony Bushell) of another wealthy couple. Robinson sends one of his slimier reporters (Boris Karloff), a onetime divinical student who'd been expelled for sexual misconduct, to visit the woman and secure a photograph.
Five Star Final. DRAMA. Early in this brisk dramedy, a jaded newsman laments that some reporters furnish the manure while some grow the flowers. Editor JoeRandall's newspaper is suddenly in the manure biz.
