A young girl, wanting a life of luxury, takes the "easy" way, and winds up in jail.A young girl, wanting a life of luxury, takes the "easy" way, and winds up in jail.A young girl, wanting a life of luxury, takes the "easy" way, and winds up in jail.
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Jack Chefe
- Waiter
- (uncredited)
Oliver Cross
- Passerby
- (uncredited)
Jack Deery
- Faculty Member
- (uncredited)
Fred Graham
- Policeman
- (uncredited)
Chuck Hamilton
- Police Car Driver
- (archive footage)
- (uncredited)
Alice Moore
- Women's Prison Warden
- (uncredited)
Pat O'Malley
- Detective John Hennessey
- (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
- Police Lab Technician
- (uncredited)
Poppy Wilde
- Night Club Patron
- (uncredited)
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFourth of 48 MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" shorts released from 1935 to 1947.
- GoofsThe story is supposed to take place in New York, but when the police are studying a wall map marked with the locations of the crimes, it's clearly a map of Los Angeles.
- Quotes
Thelma Black: We thought we were smart, but the police were smarter.
- ConnectionsFollowed by Hit-and-Run Driver (1935)
Featured review
Crime Does Not Pay
Thrill for Thelma, A (1935)
*** (out of 4)
Fourth entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series has Thelma (Irene Hervey) graduating high school and hoping for a thrilling life, which she gets when she meets a man (Robert Livingston) who just happens to be a criminal. Soon the two are running a scheme of robbing people who have pulled their cars over to do various things when the duo sneak up on them and take whatever they have. Everything is going good for Thelma and her boyfriend but soon the cops have a plan. This certainly isn't the best film in the series but there are enough interesting scenes to make it worth viewing. I think the best thing this film has going for it is the performance from Hervey who would go onto have a pretty good career. She's certainly very believable in the part and I thought she came off very natural in her scenes whether they were her freaking out over what's going on or her enjoying all the money it's bringing. Livingston is also very good and gets a scene which seemed to have been influenced by some films of Bela Lugosi as we get a close up of his menacing eyes. The story itself is probably the weakest thing here as there really aren't any surprises as everything that happens is so easy to see coming that no one will be fooled.
*** (out of 4)
Fourth entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series has Thelma (Irene Hervey) graduating high school and hoping for a thrilling life, which she gets when she meets a man (Robert Livingston) who just happens to be a criminal. Soon the two are running a scheme of robbing people who have pulled their cars over to do various things when the duo sneak up on them and take whatever they have. Everything is going good for Thelma and her boyfriend but soon the cops have a plan. This certainly isn't the best film in the series but there are enough interesting scenes to make it worth viewing. I think the best thing this film has going for it is the performance from Hervey who would go onto have a pretty good career. She's certainly very believable in the part and I thought she came off very natural in her scenes whether they were her freaking out over what's going on or her enjoying all the money it's bringing. Livingston is also very good and gets a scene which seemed to have been influenced by some films of Bela Lugosi as we get a close up of his menacing eyes. The story itself is probably the weakest thing here as there really aren't any surprises as everything that happens is so easy to see coming that no one will be fooled.
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- Michael_Elliott
- Jul 21, 2010
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- Crime Does Not Pay Series No. 4: 'A Thrill for Thelma'
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- Runtime18 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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