Two Seconds

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Release date: May 28, 1932
Duration: 67 minutes
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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.

Starring

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Edward G. Robinson
John Allen
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Vivienne Osborne
Shirley Day
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Guy Kibbee
Bookie
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Preston Foster
Bud Clark