It May Happen to You

Fun "Crime Does Not Pay" short from MGM. This one stars the great character actor J. Carrol Naish. He plays Moxie, the leader of a gang that hijacks trucks and steals their cargo. Moxie gets the idea to start robbing meat trucks and finds an inside man who works at a meat company to tip them off. The problem is the crooks don't know how to properly store meat and so the stuff they sell is spoiled. People start getting sick and some even die. The police investigation leads them to Moxie's inside man. Will the cops catch the bad guys? Well they don't call it "Crime Does Not Pay" for nothing.

This is one of the better series of short films made back in the day because they had good casts, scripts, and production values. I have yet to see one that I didn't like. The characters in this particular short are well-written. The police are portrayed as competent, which is something you didn't see a lot back then. It also serves a valuable public service. This short no doubt made many criminals think twice about stealing meat.