Two Against the World, also known as One Fatal Hour, is a 1936 American melodrama film[1] directed by William C. McGann and starring Humphrey Bogart, Beverly Roberts and Linda Perry.

The main setting has been moved from a newspaper to a nationwide radio network whose owner, Bertram Reynolds, hungry for larger audiences, decides "in the name of public good" to revive the memory of a twenty-year-old murder case, with tragic consequences.

Sherry Scott, cynical manager of programming for the radio network, promises Reynolds "the hottest play you ever heard," giving the assignment to a team that includes Dr. Leavenworth, a devious reporter with the manner of a clergyman.

Isolated from family and friends since their marriage, the Carstairs desperately seek help, while the young people remain blissfully ignorant.

Carstairs finds an ally in Dr. McGuire, their pastor, whose appeal to the Association of Broadcasters leads the chairman to promise immediate action.

Although much of the dialogue is identical to that in Five Star Final (1931), that was a pre-code film, which ends with Edward G. Robinson's character telling his boss to “shove it up his—“, throwing the telephone through a glass door on the last word.

Although the fatal tragedy remains, the promised intervention of the newly formed Federal Communications Commission adds a ray of hope for the future that is not present in Five Star Final.

The New York Times review compared the film to the original play, noting that it "lacks the sincerity of purpose that distinguished the earlier work ...