Shows how so-called "minor" lawbreakers can do more damage than major criminals.Shows how so-called "minor" lawbreakers can do more damage than major criminals.Shows how so-called "minor" lawbreakers can do more damage than major criminals.
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Hugh Beaumont
- Hubbard - Reporter
- (uncredited)
Barbara Bedford
- Johnson's Maid
- (uncredited)
Naomi Childers
- Nurse
- (uncredited)
Mary Currier
- Mrs. George Johnson
- (uncredited)
Bruce Edwards
- Interne
- (uncredited)
George Guhl
- Williams - Radio Interviewee
- (uncredited)
Eddie Hart
- Police Officer
- (uncredited)
William Lally
- Cop
- (uncredited)
Hal Le Sueur
- Reporter
- (uncredited)
Claire McDowell
- Nun
- (uncredited)
Frank Mills
- Dock Worker
- (uncredited)
Roger Moore
- Reporter
- (uncredited)
John Raitt
- Pete - First Plague Victim
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe $26,000 for rat-proofing in 1940 would be equivalent to nearly $570,000 in 2023.
- Quotes
Dr. Walter Terriss: To achieve the greatest good for the greatest number of people is the fundamental purpose of every law.
- ConnectionsFollowed by Forbidden Passage (1941)
Featured review
Where Are The Rats?
Richard Lane is confronted with a city ordinance to beef up his docks. Instead, he bribes inspector Frank Orth to avoid the expense. The result is rats, rats, and bubonic plague, because Crime Does Not Pay!
Moroni Olsen plays the doctor in charge of quelling the plague; often in this long-running MGM series, he played the head of the criminal gang. I'm sure he appreciated the change of pace. He had entered movies in 1934, and quickly established himself as a capable character actor, able to play Porthos or the Pope in more than a hundred movies over the following twenty years. He died in 1954 at age 65.
Moroni Olsen plays the doctor in charge of quelling the plague; often in this long-running MGM series, he played the head of the criminal gang. I'm sure he appreciated the change of pace. He had entered movies in 1934, and quickly established himself as a capable character actor, able to play Porthos or the Pope in more than a hundred movies over the following twenty years. He died in 1954 at age 65.
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- Nov 17, 2020
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- Crime Does Not Pay No. 33: Respect the Law
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- Runtime20 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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