Five Star Final

Sep 26, 1931

1h 29m

★ 6.7

A picture as sensational as its subject!

Overview

Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Production Companies

The Vitaphone Corporation

First National Pictures

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Cast

Joseph W. Randall

Edward G. Robinson

Jenny Townsend

Marian Marsh

Michael Townsend

H.B. Warner

Phillip Weeks

Anthony Bushell

Ziggie Feinstein

George E. Stone

Nancy (Voorhees) Townsend

Frances Starr

Kitty Carmody

Ona Munson

T. Vernon Isopod

Boris Karloff

Miss Taylor

Aline MacMahon

Bernard Hinchecliffe

Oscar Apfel

Robert French

Purnell Pratt

R.J. Brannegan

Robert Elliott

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10.0

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Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. When the local authorities and various inhabitants begin to believe that there are witches among them, a collective hysteria is born and spreads rapidly through the village as if it were a plague, causing a chain of tragic consequences…

5.0

Cynara

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5.4

The White Sister

Mar 17, 1933

An Italian aristocrat enters a nunnery, thinking her pilot lover has been killed in the war.

4.7

Golden Dawn

Jun 14, 1930

Dawn, a young white girl who has been kidnapped in infancy and reared by Mooda, an African woman who operates a canteen in the German cantonment, meets and falls in love with Tom Allen, an English rubber planter who is a prisoner of war. Shep Keyes, who has joined the German troops, covets her but realizes he cannot possess her because she is betrothed to the tribal god, Mulunghu. On the eve of the ceremony, he learns of her love for Tom. Tom, meanwhile, is sent back to England, and when the English take the territory from the Germans, Shep tries to incite the natives, who are experiencing a drought, against Dawn because of her love of a mortal. Tom learns from Mooda that Dawn was stolen from a white trader and finds her seeking refuge in a convent. Shep arouses the natives, but Dawn declares her faith in the white man's God, and a thunderstorm brings relief to the parched land, after which Tom claims her for his bride.

6.0

Bought!

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Working-class girl dreams of living a better life and forsakes her friends when she has a chance to break into high society.

5.0

The Pay-Off

Oct 14, 1930

A thug robs a young engaged couple of their last few dollars. When the thug's gang boss hears of the robbery, he gives them back their money and takes them under his wing. The thug, resentful of the couple, plans to organize a mutiny against the gang's boss, but when he is killed in a botched robbery, the police focus their attention on the young couple.

4.0

Chasing Rainbows

Jan 10, 1930

The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. The spectacular dancing ensembles and colorful costumes and pulchritude on-stage offers a contrasting background to the drabness of the backstage, where joy, sorrow, tragedies, deception, and romance are intertwined.

5.0

Day of Reckoning

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6.0

The Public Defender

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A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.

5.1

Strictly Dishonorable

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A hopelessly silly young flibbertigibbet from Mississippi is faced with the choice of her poor, boorish New Jersey boyfriend or a dashing Opera star, a man of experience.

5.1

Jungle Bride

Jan 9, 1933

Four survivors of a ship wreck are stranded on a deserted island, including a woman and the man she believes is responsible for the murder which her brother is in prison for.

5.3

Corruption

Jun 18, 1933

A young lawyer is elected mayor of the city and promises to rid it of the corruption it's famous for. The problem is that most of the corruption he's vowed to eliminate is caused by the crooked political machine that helped elect him.

6.9

Fences

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6.5

Faithless

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6.2

Road to Paradise

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6.2

Anna Lucasta

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5.6

Whistling in the Dark

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A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder.

5.6

Two Against the World

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A socialite finds herself involved in a murder trial that is prosecuted by her boyfriend.