Don't Talk

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This MGM short, part of the Crime does not Pay series, focuses on industrial sabotage during wartime. After a valuable shipment of manganese is blown up at a plant, the FBI try to find out h... Read allThis MGM short, part of the Crime does not Pay series, focuses on industrial sabotage during wartime. After a valuable shipment of manganese is blown up at a plant, the FBI try to find out how information on the manganese shipment was found out. They get a lead on one of the plot... Read allThis MGM short, part of the Crime does not Pay series, focuses on industrial sabotage during wartime. After a valuable shipment of manganese is blown up at a plant, the FBI try to find out how information on the manganese shipment was found out. They get a lead on one of the plotters, Beulah Anderson, who as a waitress in a café gets to pick up all kinds of scuttlebut... Read all

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Donald Douglas

FBI Agent Jack Sampson
(as Don Douglas)

Gloria Holden

Beulah Anderson aka Beulah Binvicko

Barry Nelson

FBI Agent Freed

Harry Worth

Otto aka Anatole

Barbara Bedford

Beauty Shop Customer
(uncredited)

Margaret Bert

Mike's Wife
(uncredited)

John Butler

Mike
(uncredited)

Gene Coogan

Spy
(uncredited)

Mark Daniels

MGM Crime Reporter
(uncredited)

Cliff Danielson

FBI Agent
(uncredited)

Robert Elliott

Detective
(uncredited)

Dwight Frye

Ziggy
(uncredited)

Edward Hearn

Police Sergeant
(uncredited)

William Lally

Guard in Gear Truck
(uncredited)

George Magrill

Guard
(uncredited)

Matt McHugh

First Tool Works Employee
(uncredited)

Ivan Miller

Jules Harmon
(uncredited)

James Millican

FBI Agent-Driver
(uncredited)

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Trivia
Dwight Frye plays a saboteur trying to stop the shipment of machine tools from a defense plant. Somewhat ironic as when he died the year after this was made, the death certificate had him listed as being a tool designer since he was working at Lockheed to do his bit in the war effort.

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[first lines]
MGM Crime Reporter: Once again, as the MGM crime reporter, it is my privilege to bring you another episode in our Crime Does Not Pay series. For obvious reasons, the events and characters depicted herein are fictitious. My I present Mr. Jack Sampson, special agent in charge of a field division office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
FBI Agent Jack Sampson: Our war program, the most unprecedented in history, calls not only for the production of tanks and guns, planes and ships, but also for the building of a defense against enemy agents within our borders, agents who once again threaten, as they did in 1917. Let us review a typical cast that began in the early morning hours of November 29th, 1941, in a large industrial plant, where a quantity of ferro-manganese, an ore vitally essential in the manufacture of machine tools, was awaiting the furnace...

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5/10

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Mark Sampson, the MGM crime reporter, brings us another story of how CRIME DOES NOT PAY. It's a story about how loose lips sink ships, or at least blow up bins of war-needed manganese because spies who run beauty parlors sneer at American democracy, but the Feds are on the case.

This is a mildly hysterical entry in the long-running series. It had begun in 1935, won some Oscars for short subjects, and was held in high enough esteem that many of the approximately 30 episodes were made into radio dramas. It also became a comic book, issued between 1942 and 1955. The series was a training ground for talent, particularly directors. Jacques Tourneur directed several of the episodes, as well as Joseph Newman, who directed this one. Always maintaining a moral tone, the episodes ranged from excellent to to mildly ludicrous. This is a dry but good one.