Help Wanted (1939)

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Country: USA
Genres: Crime, Drama, Short
Release: 1939-06-10
Director: Fred Zinnemann (1907–1997)
Writers: Karl Kamb
Language: English
Stars: Tom Neal , Jo Ann Sayers , Clem Bevans , Edward Pawley , Truman Bradley , Eddie Acuff , Leon Ames , Eddy Chandler , Cliff Clark , Lester Dorr
Runtime: 21 min
Awards: N/A
AKA: Help Wanted (United States of America) , Help Wanted , Crime Does Not Pay No. 23: Help Wanted (United States of America)
Plot: A racketeer sets up an employment agency, and then sends his henchmen to lineup foremen in companies that employ unskilled labor. The foreman is promised a cut on each new man he hires, and the agency gets a whooping percentage of the new employee's first month wages. The foremen then fire the last new-hires and then another batch of new-hires goes through the cycle. And another after a month. And this continues month-after-month. Complaints from the laborers reaches the ears of the District Attorney. He steps in, with the aid of a young unskilled-laborer (Tom Neal) who had been tricked, and finally runs the gangster out of the Employment Agency business, after a murder has been committed
IMDB:tt0031415