Review

  • Warning: Spoilers
    This is another of M-G-M's "Crime Does Not Pay" shorts that appeared in the "Special Features" section of the DVD "Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light". In this one, rookie cop Dennis Nordell (Tom Trout), after graduating from police academy, goes back to his crooked friends in order to pull one heist after another of various warehouses. He seems to have thought it all out, but at the last minute, after he killed a veteran on the force and got transfered to homicide and then tries to finger a crook with a record, some small clues trip him up...Another compelling entry in the series that provides some added excitement of underscoring and narration by a mentor of some new recruits about Nordell with a lesson to them at the end. Well worth seeking out for anyone interested in these vintage stuff.