Backdrop for Forbidden Passage
Poster for Forbidden Passage

Forbidden Passage

(1941)

February 8, 1941 0h 21m
64%
TMDB Score

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.

Fred Zinnemann

Director

Top Billed Cast

AR

Addison Richards

Frank J. Maxwell

WZ

Wolfgang Zilzer

Otto Kestler

HB

Hugh Beaumont

Clements

GL

George Lessey

American Consul in Lisbon

GC

George Cleveland

Anna's Father (uncredited)

WE

William Edmunds

Illegal Alien Aboard Tugboat (uncredited)