March of Crime (2nd Edition), The (1936)
** (out of 4)
This second entry in the series only lasts seven-minutes but warns people about kidnappers and why we shouldn't pay ransom. For the most part this short looks at the Edward Hickman case. Hickman was a man who kidnapped a twelve-year-old girl and demanded ransom. When the child's father paid it turned out that the girl was already dead with her arms and legs removed as well as her organs taken out. This short goes over the crime as well as talks about Hickman's death. There's really not too much to know here but it's clear this thing just liked talking about graphic details of evil people. The film pleas for people to trust the police and government officials when they're looking for missing kids but that's pretty much all we got. Apparently Dwain Esper was either the producer or director of this thing and the sloppy editing looks like his work. This was obviously taken from some other newsreel as the edits are so bad that at times we see title cards, probably from a silent, but they're so fast that you can't read what they say unless you pause the film.
