Forbidden Passage

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.

Cast

Addison Richards

as Frank J. Maxwell

Wolfgang Zilzer

as Otto Kestler

Hugh Beaumont

as Clements

George Lessey

as American Consul in Lisbon

George Cleveland

as Anna's Father (uncredited)

William Edmunds

as Illegal Alien Aboard Tugboat (uncredited)

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