Hardly a Criminal (Spanish: Apenas un delincuente) is a 1949 Argentine crime drama directed by Hugo Fregonese and written by Raimundo Calcagno and Israel Chas de Cruz.

He is willing to pay that price in exchange for comforts of life, planning to hide the money and using it after serving his jail term.

[6] After the film's 1949 showing at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the director and his wife Faith Domergue held a party for multiple guests.

The American Cinematheque said that the film is "the best Argentine noir of the 1940s" and that it "is an audacious blending of Naked City and Brute Force".

[10] Nicolas Rapold of Film Comment wrote, "While lacking the snap of American counterparts, its laying bare of masculine pride and familial shame was hard to shake.