Two Seconds

May 28, 1932

1h 7m

★ 6.0

HIS LIFE WAS A LIVING HELL until he killed the thing that Crushed him!

Overview

A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair. Told in flashback, we witness a sleazy dancehall girl (Vivienne Osborne) dupe a high rise riveter (Edward G. Robinson) into marriage so she can live off of him. But when he loses his job and his marbles, she ends up supporting him with money from her side man--and misses no opportunity to rub it in his face that she's now supporting him in his emasculated state. As the animosity grows and things get more and more unbearable, he is eventually driven to desperate measures.

Genres

Drama

Crime

Production Companies

First National Pictures

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Cast

John Allen

Edward G. Robinson

Shirley Day

Vivienne Osborne

Bookie

Guy Kibbee

Bud Clark

Preston Foster

Tony

J. Carrol Naish

Judge

Frederick Burton

Doctor

Harry Beresford

Lizzie, Cleaning Lady

Dorothea Wolbert

The Warden

Berton Churchill

College Boy at Execution

William Janney

The Prison Doctor

Edward McWade

Woman

Gladys Lloyd

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