A Criminal Is Born

Jun 5, 1938

0h 21m

★ 8.0

Overview

An entry in MGM's Crime Does Not Pay series, this short tells the true story of how a young man, ignored by his parents, gets into a gang and starts a crime spree which leads to murder.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

A Criminal Is Born Trailers

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Cast

Henry

George P. Breakston

Rodney 'Rod'

David Durand

Tom

Norman Phillips Jr.

Jimmy Wheeler

Warren McCollum

Frank Wheeler

Joseph Crehan

Martha Wheeler

Dorothy Vaughan

Cafe Owner Joe

Eddy Waller

First Shooting Victim

Ben Taggart

Cop

Harry Strang

Druggist (uncredited)

Harry C. Bradley

Rod's Father (uncredited)

Eddy Chandler

Judge Charles Edwin Marshall (uncredited)

William Stack

Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security try to clean up the school and stop the narcotics trade, they run up against a teenage mafia. A violent confrontation on the campus leads to a deadly showdown with the drug dealer's gang, and one last chance for Latimer to save his career... and his life.

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