The Public Pays (1936)
Startling expose of modern racketeering!
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is broken through the persistence of law enforcement and the courage of a local businessman.
- Date of release
- 1936-10-10
- TMDB
- 6.9 / 10 (13)
- Runtime
- 19m
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Director
- Errol Taggart
Casting
- Richard Alexander — Drunken Hood Who Knocks Over Milk Wagon (uncredited)
- Barbara Bedford — Markovitz's Secretary (uncredited)
- Harry C. Bradley — Grocer (uncredited)
- Russ Clark — Officer Jerry (uncredited)
- Betty Ross Clarke — Paige's Secretary (uncredited)
- John Dilson — Milk Company Executive Moore (uncredited)
- Bess Flowers — Woman from the Relief Bureau (uncredited)
- Karl Hackett — Milk Company Executive Markovitz (uncredited)
- Robert Homans — Officer Donovan (uncredited)
- George Humbert — Italian Milk Dealer Simonelli (uncredited)
- Cy Kendall — Police Chief John Carney (uncredited)
- Bert LeBaron — Racketeer (uncredited)
Interesting facts
- Awards: 1 · Nominations: 1. Including: Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel
The Public Pays is a 1936 short crime film directed by Errol Taggart. In 1937, it won an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). The film is a dramatization of actual court records that tell the story of a gang's racketeering activities in the milk industry and its eventual defeat through the heroism of one dealer.
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