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Two Seconds is a 1932 American pre-Code crime drama film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Edward G. Robinson, Vivienne Osborne and Preston Foster. It was based on a successful Broadway play of the same name by Elliott Lester.
16 paź 2017 · Two Seconds (1932) Review, with Edward G. Robinson and Vivienne Osborne – Pre-Code.Com. Published by Danny on October 16, 2017. Proof That It’s a Pre-Code Film. There’s a surprisingly detailed discussion of electrocution death. “I ain’t gonna live with no lily!”
The two seconds refers to the time it takes a man to die in the electric chair. Robinson plays John Allen, who is condemned to death and about to be executed. As he waits for the electric current, he relives how he wound up there.
Two Seconds: Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. With Edward G. Robinson, Vivienne Osborne, Guy Kibbee, Preston Foster. A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair.
Two Seconds opened in New York at the Winter Garden on May 18, 1932. In his review in The New York Times, Mordaunt Hall wrote, "It is a production that is minus any comedy relief, being glum and gruesome, but adroitly done, a film that compels attention and one that is ably cast.
In the two seconds after convicted murderer Jim Allen (Edward G. Robinson) is electrocuted, his life flashes before him.
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