Two Seconds

Two Seconds (1932)

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

  • Genre: Drama, Crime
  • Release Date: 1932-05-28
  • User Rating: 6.1/10 from 20 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 7min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: First National Pictures
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Mervyn LeRoy
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Summary

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.

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  • Edward G. Robinson

    as John Allen
  • Vivienne Osborne

    as Shirley Day
  • Guy Kibbee

    as Bookie
  • Preston Foster

    as Bud Clark
  • J. Carrol Naish

    as Tony
  • Frederick Burton

    as Judge
  • Harry Beresford

    as Doctor
  • Dorothea Wolbert

    as Lizzie, Cleaning Lady
  • Berton Churchill

    as The Warden
  • William Janney

    as College Boy at Execution
  • Edward McWade

    as The Prison Doctor
  • Gladys Lloyd

    as Woman
  • Adrienne Dore

    as Annie (uncredited)
  • Luana Walters

    as Tart (uncredited)
Writing Harvey F. Thew Adaptation
Directing Mervyn LeRoy Director
Writing Elliott Lester Theatre Play
Camera Sol Polito Director of Photography
Production Hal B. Wallis Supervising Producer
Sound W. Franke Harling Original Music Composer
Editing Terry O. Morse Editor
Art Anton Grot Art Direction

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