"Two Seconds" (1932: John Allen (Edward G. Robinson), a riveter working on a skyscraper, falls for Shirley Day (Vivienne Osborne), a gold-digging taxi dancer, who gets him drunk and tricks him into marriage. This causes a falling out with Allen's co-worker, best pal and roomie, Bud Clark (Preston Foster). They have a fight on a girder, and Clark falls to his death, plunging Allen into grief, depression and psychosis. He murders two-timing Shirley and gets the chair ("two seconds" refers to his last consciousness before Riding the Lightning). This may sound corny in the pre-Code style, but the movie is powerful, with yet another great performance by Robinson, possibly the most underrated actor in Hollywood history. Osborne and Foster are excellent, and the supporting cast includes Guy Kibbee as a genial bookie, and J. Carol Naish, Eternal Movie-Italian, as Shirley's lover. Really good.