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Released
1942 · FILM

For the Common Defense!

Another Crime Does Not Pay Subject

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Runtime
22 min
DramaCrime

Synopsis

This *Crime Does Not Pay* short highlights how cooperation among the nations of the Americas supports the war effort. In the episode, a U.S. government agent travels to Chile and Colombia, where he collaborates with local authorities to prevent an Axis plan to transport stolen ammunition.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 13

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Jack RuggieroShot by Jackson Rose

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