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Poverty Row studios like Beacon caught 'em on their way up or down. A fine example of this truism is What Price Crime?, a cheaply made drama featuring Charles Starrett, months away from becoming Columbia Pictures' resident Western star, and Virginia Cherrill, Charles Chaplin's City Lights girl in her penultimate film. Both are perfectly well cast here as, respectively, an undercover agent and the girl whose brother (Noel Madison) is suspected of being a crime lord. Unfortunately, their good performances are totally wasted on a programmer heavily padded with stock footage of boxing matches and a production number that was rather obviously lifted from an entirely different movie.