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6.0

Soak the Old

1940

Part of MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series, this short film focuses on crimes revolving around pension scams.

9.0

Know Your Money

1940

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring and explores the government's attempt to curb counterfeiting.

7.0

Purity Squad

1945

This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's effort to ensure that drugs are fully tested before they are sold to consumers. Two unscrupulous investors market the drug 'Diabulin' as a substitute for insulin after preliminary tests show good results. After a short time, however, users start dying from the drug. The FDA and the state attorney general's office then go after the drug marketers.

5.9

The Wrong Way Out

1938

Two young people get married and run away, even though their parents advise them to build up their savings first. After they get settled they can barely make ends meet. When opportunity suddenly presents itself, they start on a downward spiral of crime.

6.0

What Price Safety!

1938

Racketeers muscle in on construction business, use inferior materials, make big profits and endanger the public safety.

5.6

Miracle Money

1938

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, doctors scam patients with a fake cure for cancer.

7.0

Help Wanted

1939

A temporary laborer who helps bring down a mob-sponsored employment racket

6.3

Think It Over

1938

A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.

6.0

Torture Money

1937

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, police go after a fraud operation that stages automobile accidents to collect insurance money.

5.3

It May Happen to You

1937

From MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series. Mobsters convince a meat packing company employee to help them hijack a truckload of beef.

7.0

Soak the Poor

1937

This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with racketeers shaking down small grocers and horning in on the relief tickets, forcing prices up with the consumers paying the freight.

5.7

Give Till It Hurts

1937

This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on charity fraud. Two scam artists set themselves up as 'philanthropists' to help raise money for a local clinic, but the funds they raise never get to help the people who need it.

8.0

A Criminal Is Born

1938

An entry in MGM's Crime Does Not Pay series, this short tells the true story of how a young man, ignored by his parents, gets into a gang and starts a crime spree which leads to murder.

5.9

They're Always Caught

1938

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short shows the role the crime laboratory plays in the solving of cases, and how even the smallest detail can become a major clue.

9.1

Dark Shadows

1944

A police psychiatrist is enlisted to catch a killer.

6.0

Buried Loot

1935

An embezzler who expects to serve his time in prison and then pick up his buried loot is in for a surprise.

6.0

Alibi Racket

1935

How police interrogation cracks the "airtight" alibi of a criminal.

7.0

Women in Hiding

1940

In this Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young woman wants to save her baby, but is afraid of telling her parents and has no money to pay the hospital costs involved. She falls prey to a baby-for-sale racket with quack doctors performing their services.

5.8

You, the People

1940

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "machine" to fraudulently win reelection for the current corrupt mayor. By using several illegal tactics, and aided by voter apathy, the crime boss nearly continues his control of the city.

5.8

A Gun in His Hand

1945

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young man graduates from the police academy at the top of his class. He then teams up with some local thieves and uses his knowledge of police procedures to pursue a career of undetected crime.

Genre	Crime
Production Companies	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Ccountries	United States of America

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