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  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Five_Star_FinalFive Star Final - Wikipedia

    Five Star Final is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film about the excesses of tabloid journalism directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Edward G. Robinson, Aline MacMahon (in her screen debut) and Boris Karloff.

  2. www.imdb.com › title › tt0021873Five Star Final (1931) - IMDb

    Five Star Final: Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. With Edward G. Robinson, Marian Marsh, H.B. Warner, Anthony Bushell. The City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics to resurrect a twenty year old murder case... with tragic results.

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    • Crime, Drama
    • Mervyn LeRoy
    • 1931-09-26

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  4. themotionpictures.net › 2016/10/19 › five-star-finalFive Star Final (1931) – The Motion Pictures

    Oct 19, 2016 · Mervyn LeRoy directs 1931’s Five Star Final. The film is based on a play of the same name by Louis Weitzenkorn, adapted for the screen by Robert Lord and Byron Morgan. Five Star Final is one of those films where every performer just knocks it out of the park, completely. Karloff is a total slimey sleazeball in his role as a reporter, nearly ...

  5. eriklundegaard.com › item › movie-review-five-starErikLundegaard.com - Movie Review: Five Star Final (1931)

    “Five Star Final” is based upon a play by former New York Evening Graphic editor Louis Weitzenkorn, and was adapted by Robert Lord and Byron Morgan, so you wonder who came up with the “Christians” line and how it was allowed to stick. It’s so great.

  6. www.allmovie.com › movie › five-star-final-am15958Five Star Final (1931) - Mervyn LeRoy | Synopsis, Movie Info ...

    Five Star Final is a 1931 American Pre-Code film about crime and the excesses of tabloid journalism. The picture was written by Robert Lord and Byron Morgan from the play of the same name by Louis Weitzenkorn, directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Edward G. Robinson, and featuring H. B. Warner, Marian Marsh, Oscar Apfel, Aline MacMahon, Frances ...

  7. www.sensesofcinema.com › 2003 › cteqFive Star Final – Senses of Cinema

    Dec 2, 2003 · Five Star Final is perhaps the darkest in the cycle of journalist-themed films produced in Hollywood during the early 1930s . The central character, a self-destructive tabloid newspaper editor named Randall (Edward G. Robinson), manufactures so much enthusiasm for an assignment to dredge up the Nancy Voorhees case for a sure-fire hit serial ...

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  9. www.tcm.com › tcmdb › titleFive Star Final (1931) - Turner Classic Movies

    Film Details. Genre. Drama. Adaptation. Classic Hollywood. Release Date. Sep 26, 1931. Premiere Information. New York premiere: 10 Sep 1931. Production Company. First National Pictures, Inc. Distribution Company.