Things get complicated when she learns her father died ... See full summary », Martha Carstairs was charged with murder twenty years earlier.

You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Martha Carstairs (as Helen McKellar) Claire … Bad things happen. Bogey is against it. © Letterboxd Limited.

It brings up some pertinent points - a woman working at a radio station is asked her opinion about the decision to run a cruel story about another woman’s predicament and she says darkly “I think that you can always get people interested in the crucifixion of a woman.” But this feels long for such a short feature, it’s poorly told, and it’s so gallingly cold. If you have any suggestions let me know!…, All the movies mentioned in the book of the same name. The plot is about a radio station that decides to boost their ratings by bringing back to the public, a 20 year old murder and what happened to the lady who committed the crime. In despair, she drinks poison. Not bad, but If I were the mother I would have went to the radio station and offered to tell the story myself. Was this review helpful to you? Registered charity 287780. The cynical manager of programming, Sherry Scott (Humphrey Bogart), has a crisis of conscience when faced with the deadly results. My personal count: 70/73. Two Against the World He sends Edith and Malcolm to the church, promising to follow with Martha, and kills himself. Humphrey Bogart films ranked.

Kevin Royal Johnson 3,249 films 227 Edit, A complete list of the films in John Grant's A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir: The Essential Reference Guide, an…, Films about/featuring radio talk shows, call in shows, radio stations, radio djs*. Bogart was great and it's easy to see the beginnings of a future star. It turns out that Gloria was justified in shooting her husband. ***SPOILERS*** Early Humphrey Bogart flick has Bogie playing the program director Sherry Scott of the UBC radio network the self proclaimed "Voice of the People" that in fact specializes in sleaze and scandal. Written by I’m in my room alone bored and I will be making a list of every movie that comes to my mind until I get bored with that, Curated | Film Noir | John Grant | A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Film Noir | Worldwide | 1915-Present, Black & White Cinema (1800-2020): Silent, Noir, Sci-Fi, Horror And Drama, TCM/Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide (Third Edition): Fair Movies (2 rating out of 4 stars). She got the new name Martha Carstairs and her daughter Edith is about to marry Malcolm Sims Jr., heir to a big steel fortune. He and his secretary are against the idea because the story is true.

I enjoyed this film way more than I thought I would.

Remake of the great Edward G. Robinson film Five Star Final (1931), except they change it from a news paper to a radio station running the story about the old murder case. Martha and her husband Jim commit suicide through shame and pressures put on them by her identification. Having been in the movie business since 1930, he was usually a secondary character normally supporting its leading players. IMDb A radio-network manager's boss makes him air a serial based on a murder, tormenting a woman involved. In many ways a phone-in performance from him. Dave Logan takes his regional Pan American airline and with vision and sometimes ruthless determination establishes pan-American and trans-Pacific routes. Humphrey Bogart in an early leading role as a ruthless anti-hero in this rare forgotten 1936 movie. The UBC announces the forthcoming series on Gloria Pembroke, alerting Martha and her devoted husband, Jim, to the threat to their family's happiness. After crooked nightclub owner Chips Maguire murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house. Two Against the World, also known as One Fatal Hour, is a 1936 melodrama film directed by William C. McGann and starring Humphrey Bogart, Beverly Roberts, and Linda Perry. This cheapo remake of the terrific Five Star Final suffers from terrible acting. The owner Bertram Reynolds (Robert Middlemass), is a pathetic executive who calls the shots at the station, but hides behind his decisions by pawning them off on Scott.

Not long after a jury found that she was justified in shooting her first husband, Gloria Pembroke had a daughter, Edith, and remarried. Here’s looking at you kid.

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This is a remake of the 1931 film Five Star Final with Edward G Robinson. The owner decides to have a series of morality plays written about a famous murder case from 20 years ago. His boss suggests that may he's aiming the programming above the heads of the audiences. Add the first question.

Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister. And when you consider how great the original was, one of the top films of 1931, this is a major let down. As "Edith" screams at him "WHY DID YOU KILL MY MOTHER?!" An obvious re-telling of the plot of “Five Star Final” (1931) but moved to radio from tabloid newspapers.

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The film is based on the 1930 play Five Star Final by Louis Weitzenkorn and is a much shorter remake of the film Five Star Final, which stars Edward G. Robinson. Although much of the dialogue is identical to that in Five Star Final (1931), that was a pre-code film, which ends with Edward G. Robinson's character telling his boss to “shove it up his—“, throwing the telephone through a glass door on the last word. Certificate: Passed One of many deficiencies is turning the problem into a “one bad apple” issue rather than the pressures of a morally-bankrupt industry. Full Cast & Crew: Two Against the World (1936) Cast (31) Humphrey Bogart.

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A radio-network manager's boss makes him air a serial based on a murder, tormenting a woman involved. Later Eric saves Val from an ... See full summary ». This is a good remake of a really, really good film. Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? The mother and her husband are so distraught that they kill themselves.