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A Criminal Is Born

8.0 21 mins Crime   Drama   1938
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer  
Director(s): Leslie Fenton

An entry in MGM's Crime Does Not Pay series, this short tells the true story of how a young man, ignored by his parents, gets into a gang and starts a crime spree which leads to murder.

Casts of A Criminal Is Born

David Durand

as Rodney 'Rod'

Warren McCollum

as Jimmy Wheeler

Joseph Crehan

as Frank Wheeler

Dorothy Vaughan

as Martha Wheeler

Eddy Waller

as Cafe Owner Joe

Ben Taggart

as First Shooting Victim

Harry Strang

as Cop

Harry C. Bradley

as Druggist (uncredited)

Eddy Chandler

as Rod's Father (uncredited)

William Stack

as Judge Charles Edwin Marshall (uncredited)

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