Five Star Final (1932)

Tabloid decides to dig up an old story about a woman who killed her husband decades ago and was acquitted because there was a child involved. Now the child’s getting married to a society man and the potential scandal throws the woman and her husband (the only person who knows her secret) into frantic scrabbling to stop the story.

It’s fairly obvious and often stiff, but there’s some lovely subtlety shown in a couple of scenes -- one in particular where the husband is trying to hustle his stepdaughter and her fiancé out of the apartment while trying to hide his overwhelming grief. His eyes are so sad while his words do their best to sound normal and happy.

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