Two Seconds
HIS LIFE WAS A LIVING HELL until he killed the thing that Crushed him!
1932 | 67m | English
Popularity: 3 (history)
| Director: | Mervyn LeRoy |
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| Writer: | Harvey F. Thew |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | May 28, 1932 |
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| Director: | Mervyn LeRoy |
| Writer: | Harvey F. Thew |
| Genres: | Drama, Crime |
| Keywords | death row, just married, woman between two men, murder, flashback, electric chair, capital punishment, execution, bookie, dancehall girl, pre-code, told in flashback, evil woman, wife murderer, sleaze, riveter, domineering wife, life lessons, emasculation, nasty wife, extreme measures, dancehall, downward spiral, naive young man, uncaring wife, adulterous wife, fall from height |
| Production Companies | First National Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 Entered: Apr 26, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Edward G. Robinson | John Allen |
| Vivienne Osborne | Shirley Day |
| Guy Kibbee | Bookie |
| Preston Foster | Bud Clark |
| J. Carrol Naish | Tony |
| Frederick Burton | Judge |
| Harry Beresford | Doctor |
| Dorothea Wolbert | Lizzie, Cleaning Lady |
| Berton Churchill | The Warden |
| William Janney | College Boy at Execution |
| Edward McWade | The Prison Doctor |
| Gladys Lloyd | Woman |
| Adrienne Dore | Annie (uncredited) |
| Luana Walters | Tart (uncredited) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Mervyn LeRoy | Director |
| Terry O. Morse | Editor |
| Elliott Lester | Theatre Play |
| Harvey F. Thew | Adaptation |
| Sol Polito | Director of Photography |
| W. Franke Harling | Original Music Composer |
| Anton Grot | Art Direction |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Hal B. Wallis | Supervising Producer |
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