A young girl, wanting a life of luxury, takes the "easy" way, and winds up in jail.A young girl, wanting a life of luxury, takes the "easy" way, and winds up in jail.A young girl, wanting a life of luxury, takes the "easy" way, and winds up in jail.
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Jack Chefe
- Waiter
- (uncredited)
Oliver Cross
- Passerby
- (uncredited)
Jack Deery
- Faculty Member
- (uncredited)
Fred Graham
- Policeman
- (uncredited)
Chuck Hamilton
- Police Car Driver
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Alice Moore
- Women's Prison Warden
- (uncredited)
Pat O'Malley
- Detective John Hennessey
- (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
- Police Lab Technician
- (uncredited)
Poppy Wilde
- Night Club Patron
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaFourth of 48 MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" shorts released from 1935 to 1947.
- GoofsThe story is supposed to take place in New York, but when the police are studying a wall map marked with the locations of the crimes, it's clearly a map of Los Angeles.
- Quotes
Thelma Black: We thought we were smart, but the police were smarter.
- ConnectionsFollowed by Hit-and-Run Driver (1935)
Featured review
It's Fun While It Lasts
As we learn in the fourth episode of MGM's long-running series, crime may not pay, but it's fun while it lasts. Red-headed Irene Hervey wants everything while she's young, so she and her husband, Robert Livingstone, take up heading over to lover's lane and robbing canoodling couples. She has second thoughts, of course, when their first robbery winds up killing someone, but eventually she decides there's a downside to everything, and it can be fun and games even after someone gets hurt. Besides, it's all Livingstone's fault for talking her into it.
Anyway, that's the story she tells to police captain Robert Warwick -- you may remember that he was Raffles The Amateur Cracksman about twenty years earlier, cricketer by day but jewel thief by night, so I have my doubts, especially with MGM Crime Reporter popping up from behind a desk to remind us that CRIME DOES NOT PAY. So don't do that, and don't go 'round breaking ladies' tambourines.
Anyway, that's the story she tells to police captain Robert Warwick -- you may remember that he was Raffles The Amateur Cracksman about twenty years earlier, cricketer by day but jewel thief by night, so I have my doubts, especially with MGM Crime Reporter popping up from behind a desk to remind us that CRIME DOES NOT PAY. So don't do that, and don't go 'round breaking ladies' tambourines.
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- boblipton
- Sep 13, 2019
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- Crime Does Not Pay Series No. 4: 'A Thrill for Thelma'
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- Runtime18 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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