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What Price Safety! (1938)

Genre : Crime, Drama

Runtime : 20M

Director : Harold S. Bucquet

Synopsis

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

Actors

Lionel Royce
Lionel Royce
Morris Zuto
George Houston
George Houston
Foreman Cooper
John Wray
John Wray
J. Z. Wray

Crews

Harold S. Bucquet
Harold S. Bucquet
Director
Jack Chertok
Jack Chertok
Producer

Posters and backgrounds

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