Two Seconds

6.1
  • Genre: DramaCrime
  • Run time: 67 min
  • Premiere: 1932. May 28.

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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Vivienne Osborne

Shirley Day

Guy Kibbee

Bookie

Preston Foster

Bud Clark

Dorothea Wolbert

Lizzie, Cleaning Lady

Berton Churchill

The Warden

William Janney

College Boy at Execution

Edward McWade

The Prison Doctor

Adrienne Dore

Annie (uncredited)

Luana Walters

Tart (uncredited)

Art

Anton Grot

Art Direction

Camera

Sol Polito

Director of Photography

Directing

Mervyn LeRoy

Director

Editing

Production

Hal B. Wallis

Supervising Producer

Sound

W. Franke Harling

Original Music Composer

Writing

Harvey F. Thew

Adaptation

Elliott Lester

Theatre Play

Art

Anton Grot

Art Direction

Camera

Sol Polito

Director of Photography

Directing

Mervyn LeRoy

Director

Editing

Production

Hal B. Wallis

Supervising Producer

Sound

W. Franke Harling

Original Music Composer

Writing

Harvey F. Thew

Adaptation

Elliott Lester

Theatre Play