| Don't Talk | |
| Director: | Joe Newman |
| Starring: | Don Douglas Gloria Holden Barry Nelson Harry Worth |
| Cinematography: | Jackson Rose, A.S.C. |
| Editing: | Harry Komer |
| Distributor: | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Runtime: | 22 minutes |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
Don't Talk is a 1942 American short propaganda film, produced for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Crime Does Not Pay series, about the dangers of homefront espionage in wartime. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 15th Academy Awards for Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Two-reel).[1]
German spy Beulah is posing as a cafe waitress near a depot for trucks delivering war material. She listens to the truckers' conversations and reports to her superior Otto, who is posing as Anatole, manager of a beauty salon.
| +Uncredited (in order of appearance) | ||
| Matt McHugh | tool works employee questioned regarding the manganese explosion | |
| Harry Wilson | tool works employee questioned regarding the manganese explosion | |
| Barbara Bedford | beauty shop customer | |
| Arthur Space | Griff, who committed the sabotage | |
| Jack Richardson | spy in back room of beauty parlor | |
| William Tannen | FBI agent watching Beulah the waitress-spy at the Elite Cafe | |
| James Warren | FBI technician examining bullet hole in truck engine | |
| Dwight Frye | Ziggy, one of the spies | |
| George Magrill | guard at truck loading dock | |
| Robert Elliott | detective at truck loading dock | |
| Margaret Bert | cafe customer, wife of Mike, truck loader hurt by crate pushed onto his arm | |
| James Millican | FBI agent driving the car following Beulah | |
| Edward Hearn | police sergeant driving to help the FBI agents |