Five Star Final (1931)
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
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.
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What critics compared Five Star Final to
Spotlight is a “newspaper movie,” but aside from its street wit and sleeves-rolled-up energy, it shares little with the Five Star Final muckrakers and Front Page– style comedies of the Thirties and Forties or with the noir-ish drama of All the President’s Men.