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This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with racketeers shaking down small grocers and horning in on the relief tickets, forcing prices up with the consumers paying the freight.
Cast
Leslie Fenton, Leon Ames, George Chandler, Byron Foulger, Carl Stockdale, Phillip Trent
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