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Crime Does Not Pay: The Complete Shorts Collection (1935-1947) [DVD]
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Crime Does Not Pay: The Complete Shorts Collection (1935-1947)

  
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Learn what happens when you buck the law in this enduringly popular series of impressively mounted mini-melodramas produced by M-G-M over 1935-47, on which many notable directors and performers cut their professional teeth. All 50 shorts in the series--including such Academy Award winners and nominees as "The Public Pays" (1936), "Torture Money" (1937), "They're Always Caught" (1938), "Drunk Driving" (1939), "Forbidden Passage" (1941), "A Gun In His Hand" (1945), and "The Luckiest Guy In The World" (1947)--are presented in a six-disc set. 16 3/4 hrs. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono.
 
SKU: D60077
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Category:
Drama
Director:
Harold S. Bucquet, Edward L. Cahn, Felix Feist, Joseph Losey, Joe Newman, Roy Rowland, George B. Seitz, Jacques Tourneur, Fred Zinnemann
Rated:
NR
Color:
Black & White
Format: 
DVD-R Fullscreen
Closed Captioned:
 No
Cast:  Robert Taylor, Raymond Hatton, Barry Nelson, Milton Kibbee, Cameron Mitchell, Leon Ames, Stephen McNally, Van Johnson, Darryl Hickman, Ralph Morgan, Marsha Hunt, Reed Hadley, Tom Neal, Lloyd Corrigan, Laraine Day, Phillip Terry, Dwight Frye, Stanley Ridges, Louis Jean Heydt, Rex Lease, Victor Kilian, Anna Q. Nilsson
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