Five Star Final
Editor Joe Randall is pressured against his principles to come up with a sensationalist tale to increase readership and revenues. He revisits a love-nest murder of years past. As circulation soars people involved in the story are suddenly victimized.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 29 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: June 22, 2010
- Originally Released: 1931
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Edward G. Robinson, Marian Marsh, H.B. Warner, Anthony Bushell, George E. Stone & Boris Karloff | |
Directed by | Mervyn LeRoy | |
Screenwriting by | Byron Morgan & Robert Lord | |
Director of Photography: | Sol Polito |
Entertainment Reviews:
Five Star Final is perhaps the darkest in the cycle of journalist-themed films produced in Hollywood during the early 1930s.
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Senses of Cinema
Thanks to the performances, especially Robinson as the tabloid editor and Marsh as the victim, the film is still engrossing.
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Film4
Rating: 4/5 --
This production races along without a desultory instant.
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New York Times
Edward G. Robinson means a lot to this entertainment.
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Variety
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.
Time Out
Rating: 5/5 --
A blistering indictment of tabloid journalism and built around one of Edward G. Robinson's most compelling performances.
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Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Mervyn LeRoy directed, doing a lot better with the newspaper chatter than with the long stretches of melodrama.
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Chicago Reader
Description by OLDIES.com:
Early in this brisk dramedy, a jaded newsman laments that some reporters furnish the manure while some grow the flowers. Editor Joe Randall's newspaper is suddenly in the manure biz. To increase readership and revenues, he's pressured against his principles to come up with a sensationalist tale or two. So Randall revisits a love-nest murder of years past. Circulation soars. But living people - real people - involved in the story are suddenly victimized. Randall could never imagine the tragedy to follow. As Randall, Edward G. Robinson finds a role to match his authoritative talents in this hot-off-the-presses Best Picture Academy Award nominee directed for hard-hitting effect by Mervyn LeRoy. Boris Karloff, just weeks away from the release of Frankenstein, plays Randall's shady lead reporter.
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- UPC: 883316256633
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