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Don't Talk

Even a whisper may get to Hitler
1942 | 22m | English

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Popularity: 0.5 (history)

Director: Joseph M. Newman
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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.
Release Date: Feb 28, 1942
Director: Joseph M. Newman
Writer:
Genres: Drama
Keywords spy, world war ii, saboteur, sabotage, crime does not pay
Production Companies Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Box Office Revenue: $0
Budget: $0
Updates Updated: Feb 02, 2026
Entered: May 01, 2024
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Name Character
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
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Joseph M. Newman Director
Jackson Rose Director of Photography
Harry Komer Editor
Richard Duce Art Direction
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Geronimo1967
6.0

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, ... but how on earth did they know of this precious shipment? The workforce are all entirely trustworthy and adamant that they have ever said a word to anyone. These are smart cookies, these Hoover boys, and so swiftly look for what these men have in common. The café across the street, and a waitress who once visited the Aya Sofia in Istanbul. Is she gleaning the odd snippet of conversation and putting two and two together? We know all along who is pulling whose strings and given the nature of the series, we know that the Feds will get their man, but it’s nonetheless one of the more action-packed and sinister of these twenty minute features and I kept expecting Basil Rathbone to emerge from somewhere too.

Jul 27, 2025