Fresh
Edward G. Robinson means a lot to this entertainment.
Variety Staff, Variety
Five Star Final
A picture as sensational as its subject!
1931 · 1h 29m · N/A
Crime, Drama
Directed by
Mervyn LeRoy
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Five Star Final
Overview
Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
Director and cast
- Mervyn LeRoy Director
- Edward G. Robinson as Joseph W. Randall
- Marian Marsh as Jenny Townsend
- H.B. Warner as Michael Townsend
- Anthony Bushell as Phillip Weeks
- George E. Stone as Ziggie Feinstein
- Frances Starr as Nancy (Voorhees) Townsend
- Ona Munson as Kitty Carmody
- Boris Karloff as T. Vernon Isopod
- Aline MacMahon as Miss Taylor
- Oscar Apfel as Bernard Hinchecliffe
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
91%
Tomatometer
Fresh
This production races along without a desultory instant.
Mordaunt Hall, New York Times
Fresh
Mervyn LeRoy directed, doing a lot better with the newspaper chatter than with the long stretches of melodrama.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten
This early entry in the Warner 'social protest' cycle hasn't worn nearly so well as Hecht-Milestone's much less solemn and self-righteous The Front Page.
Tom Milne, Time Out
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