Five Star Final

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Five Star Final
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Produced by Hal B. Wallis
Written by Byron Morgan
Robert Lord
Starring Edward G. Robinson
Marian Marsh
Aline MacMahon
H. B. Warner
Frances Starr
Ona Munson
Boris Karloff
Cinematography Sol Polito
Editing by Frank Ware
Distributed by First National
(Warner Bros.)
Release date(s) September 26, 1931
Running time 89 minutes
Country  United States
Language English
IMDb • Allmovie

Five Star Final is a 1931 American crime film nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was written by Robert Lord and Byron Morgan from the play by Louis Weitzenkorn, and directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The movie stars Edward G. Robinson, Oscar Apfel, Aline MacMahon, H. B. Warner, Marian Marsh, Frances Starr, Ona Munson, and Boris Karloff.

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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.

The city editor, who has a compulsive hand-washing habit, assigns to the story an unscrupulous reporter (Karloff) who wears a clerical collar to get information from the parents on the eve of the wedding.

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Background

The film was based on a play by the same name, written by Louis Weitzenkorn after his stint as editor of the New York Evening Graphic, a sensational tabloid of the 1920s.

In the United States, the film is not available on home video DVD, but is broadcast by Turner Classic Movies from time to time. The TCM page for the movie [1] includes a trailer and a poll where viewers can vote to have the film released on DVD.

Trivia

The title refers to an era when competing newspapers published a series of editions during the day, in this case marking its final edition front page with five stars and the word "Final."

Five Star Final is also a font that was often used in newspaper headlines.

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Films Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Little Caesar (1931) • Five Star Final (1931) • Tonight or Never (1931) • Two Seconds (1932) • Three on a Match (1932) • I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) • Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) • Tugboat Annie (1933) • The World Changes (1933) • Anthony Adverse (1936) • Waterloo Bridge (1940) • Escape (1940) • Blossoms in the Dust (1941) • Random Harvest (1942) • Madame Curie (1943) • Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) • The House I Live In (1945) • Without Reservations (1946) • Little Women (1949) • Quo Vadis (1951) • Million Dollar Mermaid (1952) • Mister Roberts (1955) • The Bad Seed (1956) • Toward the Unknown (1956) • No Time for Sergeants (1958) • The FBI Story (1959) • A Majority of One (1961) • Gypsy (1962)
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