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      Five Star Final

      1931, Crime/Drama, 1h 29m

      11 Reviews 250+ Ratings

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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.

      • Genre: Crime, Drama

      • Original Language: English

      • Director: Mervyn LeRoy

      • Release Date (Theaters):  original

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      • Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures

      • Production Co: First National Pictures

      Cast & Crew

      H.B. Warner
      Marian Marsh
      Anthony Bushell
      George E. Stone
      Frances Starr
      Ona Munson
      Boris Karloff
      David Torrence
      Oscar Apfel
      Gladys Lloyd
      Evelyn Hall
      Harold Waldridge
      Polly Walters
      James Donlan

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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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