Two Against the World (1936 film)
| Two Against the World | |
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| Directed by | William C. McGann |
| Written by | Michael Jacoby (credited as Michel Jacoby) |
| Based on | Five Star Final by Louis Weitzenkorn |
| Starring | Humphrey Bogart Beverly Roberts Linda Perry |
| Cinematography | Sidney Hickox |
| Music by | Bernhard Kaun |
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| Distributed by | Warner Bros. The Vitaphone Corp. |
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Running time | 64 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Two Against the World, also known as One Fatal Hour, is a 1936 American melodrama film directed by William C. McGann and starring Humphrey Bogart, Beverly Roberts and Linda Perry. The film is based on the 1930 play Five Star Final by Louis Weitzenkorn and is a much shorter remake of the film Five Star Final, which stars Edward G. Robinson. The main setting has been moved from a newspaper to a nationwide radio network whose owner, Bertram Reynolds, hungry for larger audiences, decides "in the name of public good" to revive the memory of a twenty-year-old murder case, with tragic consequences. The cynical manager of programming, Sherry Scott (Humphrey Bogart), has a crisis of conscience when faced with the deadly results.