They’re Always Caught (1938)

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Country: USA
Genres: Crime, Short
Release: 1938-07-03
Director: Harold S. Bucquet
Writers: John C. Higgins
Language: English
Stars: Stanley Ridges , John Eldredge , Louis Jean Heydt , Charles Waldron , May Beatty , Helen Brown , John Butler , James Conaty , Neil Fitzgerald , Harrison Greene
Runtime: 22 min
Awards: Nominated for 1 Oscar. 1 nomination total
AKA: They're Always Caught , Crime Does Not Pay #18: They're Always Caught (United States of America) , They're Always Caught (United States of America)
Plot: An honest mayor sets out to clean up graft and corruption in a big city, but when he sees through a headline-grabbing prosecutor who's only going after the small fry, he's in danger. Enter Dr. John Pritchard, who heads up the city's crime lab. He methodically sifts through evidence, uses a spectrograph, looks for fibers and grains of gunpowder, and finally cracks the case. But does his own ability put him in danger?
IMDB:tt0030860