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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. A classic Hollywood movie based on a play about an unscrupulous newspaper editor who will do anything for a scoop. Watch the trailer, clips and read the synopsis, cast and crew, and reviews on Turner Classic Movies.

  4. Louis Weitzenkorn’s play Five Star Final, which debuted in New York in December 1930 and was transformed into a film starring Edward G. Robinson that was released by Warner Brothers nine months later, sits at the opposite end of the spectrum from Cather’s A Lost Lady. Both play and movie are scathing attacks upon “yellow journalism ...

  5. Randall sends unscrupulous reporter T. Vernon Isopod (Boris Karloff) inside to get the scoop, but publishing the story has disastrous consequences. Prime Video Apple TV. Rent Five Star Final...

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    • Edward G. Robinson
    • Mervyn Leroy
    • Crime, Drama
  6. A film adaptation of a play by Louis Weitzenkorn, directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Edward G. Robinson as a newspaper editor. See the full list of cast and crew members, including writers, producers, cinematographers, and more.

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  8. 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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