Purity Squad

Purity Squad (1945)


  • Genre: Crime
  • Release Date: 1945-11-03
  • Runtime: 0h 20min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Harold F. Kress

Summary

This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's effort to ensure that drugs are fully tested before they are sold to consumers. Two unscrupulous investors market the drug 'Diabulin' as a substitute for insulin after preliminary tests show good results. After a short time, however, users start dying from the drug. The FDA and the state attorney general's office then go after the drug marketers.

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  • Byron Foulger

    as Dr. Laren aka Dr. Dibson

  • Dick Elliott

    as Judge Gilmenn

  • Morris Ankrum

    as Dr. Adams (uncredited)

  • Paul E. Burns

    as Janitor John Billings (uncredited)

  • Edward Earle

    as Judge (uncredited)

  • Franklyn Farnum

    as Radio Station Man in Studio (uncredited)

  • Frank Fenton

    as Chester Malton (uncredited)

  • William Forrest

    as Dr. Cooper (uncredited)

  • Selmer Jackson

    as Darles F. Peters (uncredited)

  • Paul Langton

    as Mr. Winthrop (uncredited)
Writing Charles F. Royal Writer
Directing Harold F. Kress Director
Art Richard Duce Art Direction
Editing Harry Komer Editor
Sound Wally Heglin Orchestrator
Sound Max Terr Music
Camera Jackson Rose Director of Photography

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