Five Star Final
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| Directed by | Mervyn LeRoy |
| Produced by | Hal B. Wallis |
| Written by | Byron Morgan Robert Lord |
| Starring | Edward G. Robinson Marian Marsh Aline McMahon 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) | 1931 |
| Running time | 89 min. |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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Five Star Final is a 1931 movie 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 McMahon, H. B. Warner, Marian Marsh, Frances Starr, Ona Munson, and Boris Karloff. 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. Despite its often old-fashioned dialogue, the film is still strangely compelling in its inexorable march to tragedy.
- Disambiguation: Five Star Final is also a font that was often used in newspaper headlines.
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