A radio network manager's boss makes him air a serial based on a murder, tormenting a woman involved.A radio network manager's boss makes him air a serial based on a murder, tormenting a woman involved.A radio network manager's boss makes him air a serial based on a murder, tormenting a woman involved.
Carlyle Moore Jr.
- Malcolm Sims Jr.
- (as Carlisle Moore Jr.)
Helen MacKellar
- Martha Carstairs
- (as Helen McKellar)
Robert Middlemass
- Bertram C. Reynolds
- (as Robert Middlemas)
Robert Gordon
- Herman Mills
- (as Bobby Gordon)
Ferdinand Schumann-Heink
- Sound Mixer
- (as Ferdinard Schumann-Heink)
- Director
- Writers
- Michael Jacoby
- Louis Weitzenkorn(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaThe first film where Humphrey Bogart receives top billing.
- GoofsThe impression from Humphrey Bogart's removed wedding ring is very apparent at times.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Breakdowns of 1936 (1936)
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Interesting remake
What a difference five years makes. This remake of "Five Star Final" (1931) came after the repeal of Prohibition and the institution of the Production Code. Consequently, the seedy speakeasy becomes a glossy cocktail bar, and the generally amoral atmosphere of the original acquires a bent to moral condemnation in the remake.
Still, "One Fatal Hour" (as it was titled on TCM) has a lot going for it. It's fast, nasty as Joe Breen would allow, and borrows much of "Five Star Final"'s sharp dialogue. (I think it also borrows the set for the hapless couple's apartment.) Bogart, in a rare pre-1940 lead role, gives a first-rate performance as the news director who struggles against his own principles even as he greenlights a muckraking radio series that will ruin the lives of a rehabilitated murderess and her blameless family. Harry Hayden, as a divinity student-turned-tabloid radio host, actually improves on Boris Karloff's performance in "Five Star Final"; he's charming, genial and deadly. Unfortunately, the rest of the cast is B-level, but watchable.
Still, "One Fatal Hour" (as it was titled on TCM) has a lot going for it. It's fast, nasty as Joe Breen would allow, and borrows much of "Five Star Final"'s sharp dialogue. (I think it also borrows the set for the hapless couple's apartment.) Bogart, in a rare pre-1940 lead role, gives a first-rate performance as the news director who struggles against his own principles even as he greenlights a muckraking radio series that will ruin the lives of a rehabilitated murderess and her blameless family. Harry Hayden, as a divinity student-turned-tabloid radio host, actually improves on Boris Karloff's performance in "Five Star Final"; he's charming, genial and deadly. Unfortunately, the rest of the cast is B-level, but watchable.
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- mightymezzo
- Aug 30, 2002
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- Runtime57 minutes
- Color
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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