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''Five Star Final'' is a 1931 film directed by Creator/MervynLeRoy, starring Creator/EdwardGRobinson.
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''Five Star Final'' is a 1931 [[UsefulNotes/ThePreCodeEra pre-Code]] drama film directed by Creator/MervynLeRoy, Creator/MervynLeRoy and starring Creator/EdwardGRobinson.
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''Five Star Final'' is a 1931 film directed by Mervyn [=LeRoy=], Creator/MervynLeRoy, starring Creator/EdwardGRobinson.
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* BuxomIsBetter: DiscussedTrope. Taylor is appalled by the hiring of sexy Kitty Carmody.
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--> "They fired Julia Murphy because she was flat-chested. Now they're gonna put this girl on because she's--" (makes "big breasts" gesture with hands)
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Lampshaded when the staff is talking about a story.
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* DrivenToSuicide: The Townsends realize that Nancy is about to be exposed and their lives are ruined. To top it off, Jenny Townsend's respective in-laws stop by to say that they are forbidding the marriage. Nancy Townsend kills herself with poison. Michael Townsend comes home, finds her dead, and kills himself with the same poison.
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* DrivenToSuicide: The Townsends realize that Nancy is about to be exposed and their lives are ruined. To top it off, Jenny Townsend's respective prospespective in-laws stop by to say that they are forbidding the marriage. Nancy Townsend kills herself with poison. Michael Townsend comes home, finds her dead, and kills himself with the same poison.
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* HelloNurse: Many people at the ''Gazette'' notice how hot Kitty Carmody is.
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* HelloNurse: HeadTurningBeauty: Many people at the ''Gazette'' notice how hot Kitty Carmody is.
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Was remade in 1936 as ''Two Against the World'' (aka ''One Fatal Hour''), moving the setting to a radio station, and starring Creator/HumphreyBogart.
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'''Randall''': Mad. Yes I am. All my life I'll be mad. Because all my life I'll be seeing Nancy Voorhee's daughter standing there. And asking me why I killed her mother. And I want you, Hinchecliffe, to enjoy the picture with me. I want you to wake up in the night and see your own squashed, putrid little soul. I want you know that every human being that works for you knows what a diseased hypocrite you are. We all know what you are! But we take your money and do your work, because we're afraid to starve. You'll have my resignation and release of my contact on your desk immediately.
* TitleDrop: A newsstand owner tells a customer athat "The five-star final won't be out until 11:30", and Randall later says "Write me a story for the five-star final." This is a reference to ye olden times when urban newspapers would publish more than one edition per day, with the last one marked with five stars and the word "FINAL".
* TitleDrop: A newsstand owner tells a customer athat "The five-star final won't be out until 11:30", and Randall later says "Write me a story for the five-star final." This is a reference to ye olden times when urban newspapers would publish more than one edition per day, with the last one marked with five stars and the word "FINAL".
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'''Randall''': Mad. Yes I am. All my life I'll be mad. Because all my life I'll be seeing Nancy Voorhee's Voorhees' daughter standing there. And asking me why I killed her mother. And I want you, Hinchecliffe, to enjoy the picture with me. I want you to wake up in the night and see your own squashed, putrid little soul. I want you know that every human being that works for you knows what a diseased hypocrite you are. We all know what you are! But we take your money and do your work, because we're afraid to starve. You'll have my resignation and release of my contact on your desk immediately.
* TitleDrop: A newsstand owner tells a customerathat that "The five-star final won't be out until 11:30", and Randall later says "Write me a story for the five-star final." This is a reference to ye olden times when urban newspapers would publish more than one edition per day, with the last one marked with five stars and the word "FINAL".
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The ''Gazette'' was closely inspired on the ''New York Evening Graphic'', an incredibly sleazy tabloid that ran between 1924 and 1932.
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* BuxomIsBetter: DiscussedTrope. Taylor is appalled by the hiring of sexy HotScoop Kitty Carmody.
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* HotScoop: Kitty Carmody, the new-hire reporter who is put on the Voorhees story. Her attractiveness is a popular topic of conversation at the ''Gazette''.
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* HotScoop: HiredForTheirLooks: Kitty Carmody, the new-hire reporter who is put on the Voorhees story. Her attractiveness is a popular topic of conversation at the ''Gazette''.
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''Five Star Final'' was made hard on the heels of ''Film/LittleCaesar'', the film that made Robinson a star. It features Creator/BorisKarloff as Isopod the sleazy reporter; Karloff's own StarMakingRole in ''[[{{Frankenstein 1931}} Frankenstein]]'' came out two months later.
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''Five Star Final'' was made hard on the heels of ''Film/LittleCaesar'', the film that made Robinson a star. It features Creator/BorisKarloff as Isopod the sleazy reporter; Karloff's own StarMakingRole in ''[[{{Frankenstein ''[[Film/{{Frankenstein 1931}} Frankenstein]]'' came out two months later.
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* ObliviousToLove: Everyone at the ''Gazette'' knows that Miss Taylor is in love with Randall, except for Randall. He finally finds out at the end as they both quit their jobs and leave together.
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* NoRomanticResolution: Others at the ''Gazette'' note that Taylor has a thing for Randall, but Taylor never does tell Randall this. At the end he quits, and she follows after him, and the movie ends.
* ObliviousToLove: Everyone at the ''Gazette'' knows that Miss Taylor is in love with Randall, except for Randall. Hefinally finds out at the end as they both quit their jobs and leave together.never does figure it out.
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* LowestCommonDenominator: The staff's opinion of the people who read their newspaper. And hardly anyone other than Randall hesitates to pander to them.
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''Five Star Final'' is a 1931 film directed by Mervyn [=LeRoy=], starring Creator/EdwardGRobinson.
Robinson plays Joseph W. Randall, the editor of a city newspaper, the ''Gazette''. The ''Gazette'' has typically been a trashy tabloid. but Randall has generally ethical instincts and prefers to cover serious, hard news. The newspaper's owner, Mr. Hinchecliffe, does not agree, and furthermore is upset by the ''Gazette'''s declining circulation. Hinchecliffe orders Randall to sleaze up the paper again in order to bring readers back.
The staff at the ''Gazette'' hit on an idea: re-visit the Nancy Voorhees case. Nancy Voorhees was a stenographer who, twenty years ago, shot a man after he knocked her up and refused to marry her. She was acquitted at trial, and the newspapers discover that she subsequently got married and has been living for years as Nancy Townsend. Nancy has buried her past well enough that Jenny Townsend, the daughter of her unfortunate liason, thinks that Nancy's husband Michael Townsend is her father. This happiness is endangered when the ''Gazette'' starts snooping into Nancy Townsend's life.
''Five Star Final'' was made hard on the heels of ''Film/LittleCaesar'', the film that made Robinson a star. It features Creator/BorisKarloff as Isopod the sleazy reporter; Karloff's own StarMakingRole in ''[[{{Frankenstein 1931}} Frankenstein]]'' came out two months later.
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* BuxomIsBetter: DiscussedTrope. Taylor is appalled by the hiring of sexy HotScoop Kitty Carmody.
--> "They fired Julia Murphy because she was flat-chested. Now they're gonna put this girl on because she's--" (makes "big breasts" gesture with hands)
* CharacterTic: Randall is constantly washing his hands. This is symptomatic of his guilt over his sleazy paper.
* DrivenToSuicide: The Townsends realize that Nancy is about to be exposed and their lives are ruined. To top it off, Jenny Townsend's respective in-laws stop by to say that they are forbidding the marriage. Nancy Townsend kills herself with poison. Michael Townsend comes home, finds her dead, and kills himself with the same poison.
* DrowningMySorrows: Randall gets good and hammered in the corner speakeasy after he's told of the Townsends killing themselves.
* ExactWords: Michael Townsend comes home and finds Nancy dead. He is reeling over this when Jenny and her fiance come in at exactly the wrong time. Michael doesn't tell them, but pretends that Nancy has gone out. He tells them to head to the church and says "I'm going to join your mother"--by which he means TogetherInDeath.
* ExtraExtraReadAllAboutIt: These words are heard over the opening credits. Then, as the ''Gazette'' is reporting on the Townsend tragedy, newsboys in the street shout "Extra, extra, all about the big suicide!"
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Lampshaded when the staff is talking about a story.
--> "I think the part about the illegitimate child isn't made quite clear enough."
* HelloNurse: Many people at the ''Gazette'' notice how hot Kitty Carmody is.
* HotScoop: Kitty Carmody, the new-hire reporter who is put on the Voorhees story. Her attractiveness is a popular topic of conversation at the ''Gazette''.
* LiquidCourage: Taylor comes back to the office drunk, and when Arthur asks her why, she says she had to get drunk to tell Randall what she wanted to say. And she does, telling Randall that they are doing a terrible thing to Nancy Townsend.
* LowestCommonDenominator: The staff's opinion of the people who read their newspaper. And hardly anyone other than Randall hesitates to pander to them.
* LuridTalesOfDoom: TropeMaker? Randall, on Hinchecliffe's orders, sets out to make the ''Gazette'' back into a sleazy tabloid in order to attract readers.
* {{Mooks}}: The thugs that the ''Gazette'' routinely sends out to rough up newsstand owners that don't display their papers prominently enough.
* ObliviousToLove: Everyone at the ''Gazette'' knows that Miss Taylor is in love with Randall, except for Randall. He finally finds out at the end as they both quit their jobs and leave together.
* {{Paparazzi}}: ''All'' the reporters at the ''Gazette''. Isopod dresses as a minister in order to gain entrance into the Townsend home and trick them into an interview. Kitty and her photographer climb through a window, and when they find the bodies, Kitty tells the photographer to get pictures.
* ShowSomeLeg: Kitty Carmody sits down in a chair in Randall's office and rather deliberately flaunts her legs. Arthur the dimwitted reporter simply goggles.
* SplitScreenPhoneCall: A unique example. A distraught Nancy Townsend tries to call Hinchecliffe at the paper. But Hinchecliffe is on the line with Randall, so the screen shows Nancy in the middle as Hinchecliffe and Randall are on each side talking to each other. When Nancy gets bounced back and forth between the two of them, either the right side or the left side goes black.
* StrawmanNewsMedia: The entire plot. The ''Gazette'' is a trashy tabloid which does not hesitate to ruin a human life in order to sell more papers. Randall and his secretary Taylor are the only ones who even have a hint of conscience about exposing Nancy Townsend to public shame and ruining her life.
* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: A distraught Jenny confronts Randall and pulls a gun on him, demanding to know why he killed her parents. She's talked down by her fiance, but a guilt-stricken Randall resolves to quit, and does so, but not before unloading on Henchecliffe.
--> '''Randall''': Now you listen to me, Hinchecliffe. It'll be for the last time. I'm through with your dirty rag, and I'm through with you. Oh, I'm not ducking any of the blame for this thing. You thought of the murder and I committed it. But I did it for smaller profit. For wages. You did for circulation.\\
'''Hinchecliffe''': You must be mad.\\
'''Randall''': Mad. Yes I am. All my life I'll be mad. Because all my life I'll be seeing Nancy Voorhee's daughter standing there. And asking me why I killed her mother. And I want you, Hinchecliffe, to enjoy the picture with me. I want you to wake up in the night and see your own squashed, putrid little soul. I want you know that every human being that works for you knows what a diseased hypocrite you are. We all know what you are! But we take your money and do your work, because we're afraid to starve. You'll have my resignation and release of my contact on your desk immediately.
* TitleDrop: A newsstand owner tells a customer athat "The five-star final won't be out until 11:30", and Randall later says "Write me a story for the five-star final." This is a reference to ye olden times when urban newspapers would publish more than one edition per day, with the last one marked with five stars and the word "FINAL".
* TogetherInDeath: Michael Townsend finds Nancy a suicide, and kills himself the same way in the same room.
* VideoCredits: At the beginning of the movie, as was house style for Warner Brothers in the early 1930s.
''Five Star Final'' is a 1931 film directed by Mervyn [=LeRoy=], starring Creator/EdwardGRobinson.
Robinson plays Joseph W. Randall, the editor of a city newspaper, the ''Gazette''. The ''Gazette'' has typically been a trashy tabloid. but Randall has generally ethical instincts and prefers to cover serious, hard news. The newspaper's owner, Mr. Hinchecliffe, does not agree, and furthermore is upset by the ''Gazette'''s declining circulation. Hinchecliffe orders Randall to sleaze up the paper again in order to bring readers back.
The staff at the ''Gazette'' hit on an idea: re-visit the Nancy Voorhees case. Nancy Voorhees was a stenographer who, twenty years ago, shot a man after he knocked her up and refused to marry her. She was acquitted at trial, and the newspapers discover that she subsequently got married and has been living for years as Nancy Townsend. Nancy has buried her past well enough that Jenny Townsend, the daughter of her unfortunate liason, thinks that Nancy's husband Michael Townsend is her father. This happiness is endangered when the ''Gazette'' starts snooping into Nancy Townsend's life.
''Five Star Final'' was made hard on the heels of ''Film/LittleCaesar'', the film that made Robinson a star. It features Creator/BorisKarloff as Isopod the sleazy reporter; Karloff's own StarMakingRole in ''[[{{Frankenstein 1931}} Frankenstein]]'' came out two months later.
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!!Tropes:
* BuxomIsBetter: DiscussedTrope. Taylor is appalled by the hiring of sexy HotScoop Kitty Carmody.
--> "They fired Julia Murphy because she was flat-chested. Now they're gonna put this girl on because she's--" (makes "big breasts" gesture with hands)
* CharacterTic: Randall is constantly washing his hands. This is symptomatic of his guilt over his sleazy paper.
* DrivenToSuicide: The Townsends realize that Nancy is about to be exposed and their lives are ruined. To top it off, Jenny Townsend's respective in-laws stop by to say that they are forbidding the marriage. Nancy Townsend kills herself with poison. Michael Townsend comes home, finds her dead, and kills himself with the same poison.
* DrowningMySorrows: Randall gets good and hammered in the corner speakeasy after he's told of the Townsends killing themselves.
* ExactWords: Michael Townsend comes home and finds Nancy dead. He is reeling over this when Jenny and her fiance come in at exactly the wrong time. Michael doesn't tell them, but pretends that Nancy has gone out. He tells them to head to the church and says "I'm going to join your mother"--by which he means TogetherInDeath.
* ExtraExtraReadAllAboutIt: These words are heard over the opening credits. Then, as the ''Gazette'' is reporting on the Townsend tragedy, newsboys in the street shout "Extra, extra, all about the big suicide!"
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Lampshaded when the staff is talking about a story.
--> "I think the part about the illegitimate child isn't made quite clear enough."
* HelloNurse: Many people at the ''Gazette'' notice how hot Kitty Carmody is.
* HotScoop: Kitty Carmody, the new-hire reporter who is put on the Voorhees story. Her attractiveness is a popular topic of conversation at the ''Gazette''.
* LiquidCourage: Taylor comes back to the office drunk, and when Arthur asks her why, she says she had to get drunk to tell Randall what she wanted to say. And she does, telling Randall that they are doing a terrible thing to Nancy Townsend.
* LowestCommonDenominator: The staff's opinion of the people who read their newspaper. And hardly anyone other than Randall hesitates to pander to them.
* LuridTalesOfDoom: TropeMaker? Randall, on Hinchecliffe's orders, sets out to make the ''Gazette'' back into a sleazy tabloid in order to attract readers.
* {{Mooks}}: The thugs that the ''Gazette'' routinely sends out to rough up newsstand owners that don't display their papers prominently enough.
* ObliviousToLove: Everyone at the ''Gazette'' knows that Miss Taylor is in love with Randall, except for Randall. He finally finds out at the end as they both quit their jobs and leave together.
* {{Paparazzi}}: ''All'' the reporters at the ''Gazette''. Isopod dresses as a minister in order to gain entrance into the Townsend home and trick them into an interview. Kitty and her photographer climb through a window, and when they find the bodies, Kitty tells the photographer to get pictures.
* ShowSomeLeg: Kitty Carmody sits down in a chair in Randall's office and rather deliberately flaunts her legs. Arthur the dimwitted reporter simply goggles.
* SplitScreenPhoneCall: A unique example. A distraught Nancy Townsend tries to call Hinchecliffe at the paper. But Hinchecliffe is on the line with Randall, so the screen shows Nancy in the middle as Hinchecliffe and Randall are on each side talking to each other. When Nancy gets bounced back and forth between the two of them, either the right side or the left side goes black.
* StrawmanNewsMedia: The entire plot. The ''Gazette'' is a trashy tabloid which does not hesitate to ruin a human life in order to sell more papers. Randall and his secretary Taylor are the only ones who even have a hint of conscience about exposing Nancy Townsend to public shame and ruining her life.
* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: A distraught Jenny confronts Randall and pulls a gun on him, demanding to know why he killed her parents. She's talked down by her fiance, but a guilt-stricken Randall resolves to quit, and does so, but not before unloading on Henchecliffe.
--> '''Randall''': Now you listen to me, Hinchecliffe. It'll be for the last time. I'm through with your dirty rag, and I'm through with you. Oh, I'm not ducking any of the blame for this thing. You thought of the murder and I committed it. But I did it for smaller profit. For wages. You did for circulation.\\
'''Hinchecliffe''': You must be mad.\\
'''Randall''': Mad. Yes I am. All my life I'll be mad. Because all my life I'll be seeing Nancy Voorhee's daughter standing there. And asking me why I killed her mother. And I want you, Hinchecliffe, to enjoy the picture with me. I want you to wake up in the night and see your own squashed, putrid little soul. I want you know that every human being that works for you knows what a diseased hypocrite you are. We all know what you are! But we take your money and do your work, because we're afraid to starve. You'll have my resignation and release of my contact on your desk immediately.
* TitleDrop: A newsstand owner tells a customer athat "The five-star final won't be out until 11:30", and Randall later says "Write me a story for the five-star final." This is a reference to ye olden times when urban newspapers would publish more than one edition per day, with the last one marked with five stars and the word "FINAL".
* TogetherInDeath: Michael Townsend finds Nancy a suicide, and kills himself the same way in the same room.
* VideoCredits: At the beginning of the movie, as was house style for Warner Brothers in the early 1930s.
