Two Seconds

Overview

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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Cast

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