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

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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

After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent people, Dick and Jane actually get pretty good at robbing people and even enjoy it -- but they have second thoughts when they're reminded that crime can hurt innocent people. When the couple hears that Globodyne boss Jack McCallister actually swindled the company, they plot revenge.

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