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Two Seconds (1932)

Two Seconds (1932)

Drama Crime

HIS LIFE WAS A LIVING HELL until he killed the thing that Crushed him!

Release Date: 1932, May 28
Directors: Mervyn LeRoy
Countries: United States of America
Production: First National Pictures
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Preston Foster, Berton Churchill, Guy Kibbee, Frederick Burton, J. Carrol Naish, Luana Walters, Edward McWade, Dorothea Wolbert, Vivienne Osborne, Harry Beresford, William Janney

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

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