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    Five Star Final

    1931 · Crime drama · 1h 29m

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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

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    • Crime, Drama
    • Mervyn LeRoy
    • 1931-09-26
  3. Managing editor Joseph Randall (Edward G. Robinson) is ordered by owner Bernard Hinchecliffe (Oscar Apfel) to run a series of articles on the Voorhees case. Twenty years earlier Nancy Voorhees was demonized in newspapers for murdering her unfaithful fiancé after she became pregnant.

  4. 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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    • Edward G. Robinson
    • Mervyn Leroy
    • Crime, Drama
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  6. Five Star Final is a 1931 American Pre-Code film about crime and the excesses of tabloid journalism. The picture was written by Robert Lord and Byron Morgan from the play of the same name by Louis Weitzenkorn, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Edward G. Robinson, and featuring H. B. Warner, Marian Marsh, Oscar Apfel, Aline MacMahon, Frances ...

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  8. Edward G. Robinson stars as the ruthless newspaper editor who will go to any length, use any means--and destroy anyone--to get a paper-selling headline for the Five Star Final. Facing declining circulation, Joseph Randall (Robinson--Double Indemnity) decides to dig up a 20-year-old killing.

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