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Purity Squad (1945)

Purity Squad (1945)

Crime
Release Date: 1945, November 3
Directors: Harold F. Kress
Countries: United States of America
Production: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast: Franklyn Farnum, Frank Fenton, Dick Elliott, Edward Earle, Paul E. Burns, Byron Foulger, Selmer Jackson, William Forrest, Morris Ankrum, Paul Langton

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

drug crime does not pay