Two Seconds

• 6.1 Drama
• 1932-05-28
• 67 minutes mins

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:

Edward G. Robinson (John Allen) Vivienne Osborne (Shirley Day) Guy Kibbee (Bookie) Preston Foster (Bud Clark) J. Carrol Naish (Tony) Frederick Burton (Judge) Harry Beresford (Doctor) Dorothea Wolbert (Lizzie, Cleaning Lady) Berton Churchill (The Warden) William Janney (College Boy at Execution)

Director:

Mervyn LeRoy

Writer:

No writer found.