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Two Seconds

Two Seconds

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 28, 1932

Runtime

1h 7m

Genres

Drama, Crime

User Score

61%

Original Title

Two Seconds

Production Companies

First National Pictures

Director

Mervyn LeRoy

Description

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.