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Forbidden Passage

"Another thrilling CRIME DOES NOT PAY Subject"

63
Audience
NR 1941 · 21m
Drama, Crime
Starring Addison Richards · Wolfgang Zilzer · Hugh Beaumont
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About

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short looks at the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to halt the smuggling of illegal aliens into the country. Desperate immigrants, tired of waiting for legal entry, pay exorbitant fees and risk a grisly death to enter by illegal means.

Theatrical
Feb 8, 1941
Director
Fred Zinnemann
Writer
Carl Dudley
Studio
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Keywords
immigration illegal immigration people smuggling smuggling (contraband) undocumented immigrant crime does not pay
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Cast

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A
Addison Richards
Frank J. Maxwell
W
Wolfgang Zilzer
Otto Kestler
H
Hugh Beaumont
Clements
G
George Lessey
American Consul in Lisbon
G
George Cleveland
Anna's Father (uncredited)
W
William Edmunds
Illegal Alien Aboard Tugboat (uncredited)

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