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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02 January 1937
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05 June 1938
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22 June 1940
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10 October 1936
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05 February 1938
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17 September 1937
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26 June 1937
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24 January 1937
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14 May 1937
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13 September 1937
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03 September 1937
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21 April 1937
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