For the Common Defense!
MovieTitle | For the Common Defense! |
User score | 4.3 |
Release date | Jun 20, 1942 |
Genre | Drama, Crime |
Director | Allan Kenward |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
Run time | 22 min. |
This Crime Does Not Pay short shows how cooperation among all the nations of the Americas helps the war effort. In this case, a US government agent travels to Chile and Colombia. He works with local authorities to try to thwart an Axis plan to ship stolen ammunition.
Actors
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Subprefect Santiago Castillo
Douglas Fowley
Dutch Mullner
Stephen McNally
Lt. Guytan
Van Johnson
Agent Pritchard
Egon Brecher
Adolph (uncredited)
Jacqueline Dalya
Buckley's girlfriend (uncredited)
Mark Daniels
MGM Crime Reporter (uncredited)
Steven Geray
Heinrich Ort (uncredited)
José Portugal
Officer (uncredited)