What Price Safety! (1938)

Racketeers muscle in on construction business, use inferior materials, make big profits and endanger the public safety.

Director:

Harold S. Bucquet

Stars:

Lionel Royce, George Houston, John Wray

Cast

Cast overview:
Lionel Royce	...	Mr. Zuto
George Houston	...	Foreman Cooper
John Wray	...	J. Z. Wray

Storyline

A construction site is vandalized, the result of which is the building has collapsed and a nearby tunnel flooded. The contractor, the J.Z. Wray Construction Company which is the largest construction company in the city, is potentially ruined by this mishap as it's not the first time one of Wray's buildings under construction has collapsed. The chief building inspector, telling Wray he believes it just shoddy work on Wray's part, tells Wray he's going to investigate regardless. However, the building inspector is in cahoots with the vandals' leader, the notorious racketeer Zuto, who is out to take over Wray's business first by becoming his unknown silent partner. Zuto plans on using second rate materials and get city business through the connections with the building inspector. When some of Wray's now fired men, including his former chief foreman named Cooper, and some legitimate building inspectors learn of the shoddy work now at Wray construction sites - the shoddy work secretly ...

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Plot Keywords:

crime does not pay series | two reeler

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Genres:

Short | Crime | Drama

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

5 February 1938 (USA)

Also Known As:

Crime Does Not Pay No. 14: What Price Safety!

Company Credits

Production Co:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

20 min

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

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