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Movie Info
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), who shot the father of her child for his infidelity. Nancy is now married and happily planning the marriage of her daughter, Jenny (Marian Marsh). Randall sends unscrupulous reporter T. Vernon Isopod (Boris Karloff) inside to get the scoop, but publishing the story has disastrous consequences.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
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Original Language: English
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Director: Mervyn LeRoy
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Release Date (Theaters): original
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Runtime:
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Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
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Production Co: First National Pictures
Cast & Crew

Edward G. Robinson
Randall

H.B. Warner
Michael Townsend

Marian Marsh
Jenny Townsend

Anthony Bushell
Phillip Weeks

George E. Stone
Ziggie Feinstein

Frances Starr
Nancy "Voorhees" Townsend

Ona Munson
Kitty Carmody

Boris Karloff
T. Vernon Isopod

Robert Elliott
Brannegan

Aline MacMahon
Miss Taylor

Purnell Pratt
French

David Torrence
Arthur Weeks (uncredited)

Oscar Apfel
Hinchecliffe

Gladys Lloyd
Miss Edwards (uncredited)

Evelyn Hall
Mrs. Isobel Weeks

Harold Waldridge
Arthur Goldberg (uncredited)

Polly Walters
Telephone Operator (uncredited)

James Donlan
Reporter in Speakeasy (uncredited)

Frank Darien
Schwartz

Mervyn LeRoy
Director
Critic Reviews for Five Star Final
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May 31, 2020
Before Orson Welles' Citizen Kane took a veiled shot at newspaper tabloid tycoon Willian Randolph Hearst director Mervyn LeRoy did the same with Five Star Final. LeRoy, Edward G. Robinson - with co-stars Marian Marsh and Aline MacMahon - deliver a powerful story of how the tabloid media ruins lives for profit. The final scene is powerful and a must-see.
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