Forbidden Passage
Another thrilling CRIME DOES NOT PAY Subject
Overview
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short looks at the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to halt the smuggling of illegal aliens into the country. Desperate immigrants, tired of waiting for legal entry, pay exorbitant fees and risk a grisly death to enter by illegal means.
- Production
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
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- Director
- Fred Zinnemann
- Writers
- Carl Dudley
- Cinematography
- Jackson Rose
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CinemaSerf
July 11, 2025
This is maybe one of the more harrowing of these “Crime Does Not Pay” short features as it rather graphically displays both the desperation and frustration of those trying to get into the USA and the ruthlessness of the people smugglers who charge them $2,000 each to, hopefully, achieve their goal. It’s when a body weighed down with chains is discovered in Florida that the immigration service decides to investigate one such ring of criminals that operates out of Portugal via Belize - but it is a…