The Perfect Set-Up

Year: 1936

Runtime: 21 mins

Language: English

Director: Edward L. Cahn

DramaCrime

In this MGM “Crime Does Not Pay” series short, a radio and television engineer falls into a life of crime by dismantling alarms for robberies.

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