For the Common Defense! (1942)
This Crime Does Not Pay short shows how cooperation among all the nations of the Americas helps the war effort. In this case, a US government agent travels to Chile and Colombia. He works with local authorities to try to thwart an Axis plan to ship stolen ammunition.
- Released
- 1942-06-20
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Runtime
- 22 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Allan Kenward, John C. Higgins
- TMDB rating
- 5.0/10 from 9 votes
Cast
- John Litel as Subprefect Santiago Castillo
- Douglas Fowley as Dutch Mullner
- Stephen McNally as Lt. Guytan
- Van Johnson as Agent Pritchard
- Egon Brecher as Adolph (uncredited)
- Jacqueline Dalya as Buckley's girlfriend (uncredited)
- Mark Daniels as MGM Crime Reporter (uncredited)
- Steven Geray as Heinrich Ort (uncredited)
- José Portugal as Officer (uncredited)