For the Common Defense!

June. 20,1942 NR

Rating：

5.3

Genre：

Drama Crime

Keywords：

War Propaganda

Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

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)

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