A Gun in His Hand
Overview
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a young man graduates from the police academy at the top of his class. He then teams up with some local thieves and uses his knowledge of police procedures to pursue a career of undetected crime.
- Production
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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Cast
Tom Trout
Police Officer Dennis Nordell
Richard Gaines
Police Inspector Dana
Anthony Caruso
Frankie
Hugh Beaumont
Police Academy Graduate (uncredited)
William Challee
Snorky (uncredited)
Roger Moore
Police Instructor (uncredited)
Robert Emmett O'Connor
Veteran Policeman McGuinnes (uncredited)
Arthur Space
Calvin 'Whitey' Foster (uncredited)
Harry Strang
Police Captain R.C. Johnson (uncredited)
William Tannen
Police Lab Technician Wilson (uncredited)
Ray Teal
Police Lt. O'Neill (uncredited)
Charles C. Wilson
Chief of Police (uncredited)
Harry Wilson
Ex-Con Thug (uncredited)
Crew
- Director
- Joseph Losey
- Writers
- Charles F. Royal
- Producers
- Chester M. Franklin
- Cinematography
- Jackson Rose
- Composer
- Max Terr
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CinemaSerf
July 6, 2025
“Nordell” (Tom Trout) is your ideal policeman. Top of his class, studious and meticulous and destined to go far in the force. We know, however, that he has other plans and that he using his skills and his knowledge of internal procedures to lead a gang on some daring warehouse robberies. His colleagues are baffled until one of their number cottons on to their diversionary the strategy and is gunned down. With police efforts redoubled, can “Nordell” keep pulling the wool over their eyes? It’s par…