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Five Star Final

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NR,1hr 29min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1931
Director:
Mervyn LeRoy
Starring:
Edward G. Robinson, Marian Marsh, H.B. Warner  ...more
Synopsis: Adapted from the stage play by former newspaperman Louis Weitzenkorn, Five Star Final is an uncompromising look at the consequences of journalistic irresponsibility. Hounded by his publishers to pep up circulation with a sensational story, newspaper editor Edward G. Robinson decides to revive public interest in a long-ago murder case. He discovers that a woman (Sally Starr) who'd shot her lover nearly three decades earlier is now living under a new name and is married to a pillar of society (H.B. ... Full Synopsis
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Michael Betzold, AMG Review
In 1931, at the dawn of the era of sound motion pictures, many of the standards for film genres were set. Nominated for an Oscar as the year's best film, Five Star Final was the prototypical newspaper movie which was widely imitated in the 1930s and 1940s. It features many of the aspects of such films that would later become cliches, including a hard-bitten newspaper editor (played by Edward G. ... Full Review
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Edward G. Robinson
Joseph Randall
Marian Marsh
Jenny Townsend
H.B. Warner
Michael Townsend
Anthony Bushell
Phillip Weeks
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