Five Star Final

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.

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.

Cast

• Edward G. Robinson - Joseph W. Randall
• Marian Marsh - Jenny Townsend
• H. B. Warner - Michael Townsend
• Anthony Bushell - Phillip Weeks
• George E. Stone - Ziggie Feinstein
• Frances Starr - Nancy (Voorhees) Townsend
• Ona Munson - Kitty Carmody
• Boris Karloff - Rev. T. Vernon Isopod
• Aline MacMahon - Miss Taylor
• Oscar Apfel - Bernard Hinchecliffe
• Purnell Pratt - Robert French
• Robert Elliott - R.J. Brannegan

Trivia

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

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