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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.
- $822,000
- Hal B. Wallis (uncredited)
- $310,000
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.
- 2 min
- 61
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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Synopsis. When Bernard Hinchecliffe, the owner of the tabloid newspaper the New York Evening Gazette , pushes for increased circulation, Joseph Randall, the paper's managing editor, reluctantly digs up a twenty-year-old murder case involving Nancy Voorhees, who shot her unfaithful husband.
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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.
Dec 2, 2003 · When, midway through Five Star Final, Jenny Townsend finishes her fiancée’s sentence for him, she has no idea that she is a product of just such a past. It’s all her mother (Frances Starr) can think of, and the tension on her face is excruciating.
