Two Seconds (1932)

May 28, 1932 (US) • Drama, Crime • 67m

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 dupe a high rise riveter 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.

Director

Mervyn LeRoy

Writer

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Top Billed

Edward G. Robinson

Keywords

death row just married woman between two men flashback murder electric chair capital punishment execution bookie dancehall girl pre-code told in flashback evil woman wife murderer sleaze riveter domineering wife life lessons emasculation nasty wife extreme measures dancehall downward spiral naive young man uncaring wife adulterous wife fall from height