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.
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Leslie Fenton as Nick Garvey
Leon Ames as Special Investigator Stanton
George Chandler as Briggs (uncredited)
Byron Foulger as Grocer (uncredited)
Carl Stockdale as Citizen (uncredited)
Phillip Trent as MGM Crime Reporter (uncredited)
Harold S. Bucquet Director
United States 21 August 1937
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11 March 1939
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08 February 1941
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28 October 1939
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02 January 1937
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05 June 1938
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22 June 1940
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27 January 1940
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15 December 1937
A young, newly-appointed rookie state trooper, John Shields, is celebrating with his sister Jane, his younger brother Freddie and Tom Marlin, Jane's fiancé and also a trooper, when they hear over the radio that two bandits have just killed a lawyer and his watchman.
17 September 1937
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26 June 1937
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24 January 1937
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21 July 1937
This drama chronicles the education of a naive, rich young woman who inherits a steel mill. To help her keep it running she unites with a man.
23 January 1937
Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster son Steven (Donald Woods).
26 April 1937
Agent Pete Garland is fired by society singer Monica Barrett after he got her a new radio contract, because she thinks her lawyer friend Teddy Leeds fits in better with her social status.
24 September 1937
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10 December 1937
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01 October 1937
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31 December 1937
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