01 February 1936 Drama, Crime 21 mins
In this MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" series short, a radio and television engineer falls into a life of crime by dismantling alarms for robberies.
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Helene Chadwick as Mary (uncredited)
Robert Dudley as Theatre Employee Shooting Victim (uncredited)
William Gould as San Francisco Police Detective (uncredited)
Mahlon Hamilton as Witness (uncredited)
William Henry as Alan E. Saunders (uncredited)
J. Anthony Hughes as Chet (uncredited)
Frank Shannon as Detective Hewitt (uncredited)
Ben Taggart as Police Detective (uncredited)
William Tannen as MGM Crime Reporter Jim (uncredited)
Harry Tyler as Dave Mayne (uncredited)
Crime Does Not Pay #6: The Perfect Set-Up Trailer
The Perfect Setup Trailer
United States 01 February 1936
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18 January 1936
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06 March 1936
Raymond Bernard’s film of a script by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince) about a young woman who aspires to become a pilot.
01 October 1936
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06 October 1936
Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman.
01 January 1936
Two Texas Rangers (Tom Tyler, Rex Lease) nab smugglers and rescue a woman (Margaret Nearing) from a runaway wagon.
30 November 1936
Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; Paddy at a small school in the East, where he is barely a substitute, and Ossie at a powerhouse-football school, where he is an instant star and all-American candidate.
27 March 1936
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