Five Star Final is a 1931 newspaper drama directed by Mervyn LeRoy, starring Edward G. Robinson, Boris Karloff, and Aline MacMahon and based on a play by Louis Weitzenkorn.
Robinson plays a grizzled tabloid editor tasked with digging into an old murder case to punch up circulation. Sound like a hot scoop? Think again! All the melodrama and moralizing left us wanting to stop the presses — permanently. Listen to Áine and Kevin discuss journalistic ethics, misogyny, and why they'd like to order a rewrite on this dud of a feature.
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