- Five Star Final
Infobox Film
name = Five Star Final
image_size = 200px
caption =
director =Mervyn LeRoy
producer =Hal B. Wallis
writer =Byron Morgan Robert Lord
starring =Edward G. Robinson Marian Marsh Aline MacMahon H. B. Warner Frances Starr Ona Munson Boris Karloff
music =
cinematography =Sol Polito
editing =Frank Ware
distributor =First National
(Warner Bros. )
released =September 26 1931
runtime = 89 minutes
language = English
country = USA
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
amg_id = 1:91604
imdb_id = 0021873"Five Star Final" is a 1931 American
crime film nominated for theAcademy Award for Best Picture . It was written byRobert Lord andByron Morgan from the play byLouis Weitzenkorn , and directed byMervyn LeRoy . The movie starsEdward G. Robinson ,Oscar Apfel ,Aline MacMahon ,H. B. Warner ,Marian Marsh ,Frances Starr ,Ona Munson , andBoris Karloff .Plot
Robinson plays the city editor of a tabloid newspaper who reluctantly agrees to the publisher's idea to increase circulation: a retrospective series on a murder and scandal of twenty years before, involving a secretary who shot the man who impregnated her and then refused to marry her. The woman, now married to a good man and with a daughter about to marry into a socially prominent family, reacts with horror at the renewed interest in the scandal she had put behind her.
Cast
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Edward G. Robinson - Joseph W. Randall
*Marian Marsh - Jenny Townsend
*H. B. Warner - Michael Townsend
*Anthony Bushell - Phillip Weeks
*George E. Stone - Ziggie Feinstein
*Frances Starr - Nancy (Voorhees) Townsend
*Ona Munson - Kitty Carmody
*Boris Karloff - Rev. T. Vernon Isopod
*Aline MacMahon - Miss Taylor
*Oscar Apfel - Bernard Hinchecliffe
*Purnell Pratt - Robert French
* Robert Elliott - R.J. BranneganTrivia
Five Star Final is also a
font that was often used in newspaper headlines.External links
*imdb title|id=0021873|title=Five Star Final
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