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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.
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- Crime, Drama
- Mervyn LeRoy
- 1931-09-26
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.
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.
Five Star Final is about a newspaper company in New York digging up an incriminating story about a woman in order to get her convicted, which didn't happen the first time around. Although the story is 20 years old, the paper stops at nothing in their pursuit of what they deem justice.
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- 89 min
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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 ...
