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Help Wanted short film

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Original title

Help Wanted

Year

1939

Running time

21 min.

Country

United States

Director

Fred Zinnemann

Screenwriter

Karl Kamb

Cast

Cinematography

Paul Vogel (B&W)

Producer

MGM

Genre

Drama | Short Film. Crime

Synopsis

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.

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