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What Price Safety!
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What Price Safety!

Feb 5, 1938
0h 20m
★ 6.0

Overview

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

Genres

Crime
Drama

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Cast

Lionel Royce

Morris Zuto

Lionel Royce

George Houston

Foreman Cooper

George Houston

John Wray

J. Z. Wray

John Wray

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