The Last Parade (1931)

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Country: USA
Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, War
Release: 1931-01-31
Director: Erle C. Kenton
Writers: Casey Robinson , Dorothy Howell
Language: English
Stars: Jack Holt , Tom Moore , Constance Cummings , Robert Ellis , Steve Pendleton , Jesse De Vorska , Robert Graham , Gino Corrado , Earle D. Bunn , Vivi
Runtime: 82 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: The Last Parade (United States of America) , El último desfile (Spain) , El último desfile (Argentina) , ラスト・パレイド (Japan) , Die letzte Parade (Germany) , Viimeinen paraati (Finland) , Die Stunde der Vergeltung (Austria) , O Último Desfile (Brazil) , The Last Parade , Den sidste parade (Denmark)
Plot: The first film produced by Harry Cohn's brother Jack, and a version of this film's plot was used in 1937's "End of the Trail" that also starred Jack Holt as the good-man-gone-wrong who is executed. War-time buddies Cookie Leonard (Jack Holt) and Mike O'Dowd (Tom Moore) return from World War One and returning home, Mike becomes a police officer but Cookie finds his old job as a reporter on the Herald is no longer vacant, and he takes up with gangster/bootlegger A. C. Marino (Robert Ellis.) They are both in love with Molly Pearson (Constance Cummings), a nurse who looked after them in a field-hospital in France. Cookie, in order to save someone else kills Marino but is charged with murder and is arrested by his old friend Mike. Molly and Mike watch Cookie walk the last mile to the electric chair.
IMDB:tt0022055