“Even a whisper may get to Hitler”
This Crime Does Not Pay series entry dramatizes the idea that during wartime, people should not discuss anything related to their work when in public. A casual remark can be overheard by an enemy agent and used to sabotage the war effort. In this short, the story involves shipments of parts to a defense plant.
Joseph M. Newman
Jackson Rose
Donald Douglas
FBI Agent Jack Sampson
Gloria Holden
Beulah Anderson aka Beulah Binvicko
Barry Nelson
FBI Agent Freed
Harry Worth
Otto aka Anatole
Mark Daniels
MGM Crime Reporter (uncredited)
Dwight Frye
Ziggy (uncredited)
James Millican
FBI Agent-Driver
CinemaSerf
We ought to know by now, that “Crime Does Not Pay” but just in case we had forgotten, this one combines with “Dangerous Talk Costs Lives” to warn us of the dangers of idle chatting in wartime. An explosion at a factory causes the FBI to suspect that some fifth columnist saboteurs are up to no good, ...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer