This Crime Does Not Pay entry focuses on fake spiritualists. A mother is worried about her son, who is missing in action. Over time, she gives a con man all of the family savings to find reassurance that her son is all right. When she can no longer pay, events take a tragic turn.

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Dorothy Adams
• Morris Ankrum
• Ralph Dunn
• Harry Hayden
• Lloyd Ingraham
• Howard M. Mitchell
• Frank Reicher
• Arthur Shields