"What Price Safety!" begins with crooks deliberately sabotaging the Wray Construction Company's buildings in order to ruin the guy. This is so criminals can muscle in on him and build inferior projects instead--charging clients normal prices for sub-par projects. Not surprisingly, the safety inspectors are appalled but are either reassigned when they say anything or are violently killed. However, oddly, the case is solved due to orchid pollen found on the dead inspector.
This is another exceptional installment of this series. Like the other shorts, the production values are very nice (it was made by MGM) and the story hums along well. What I particularly liked about this one was its reliance on forensics--well before you might expect. In addition to the pollen the police also evaluate the steel using extreme magnification. Well done in every way.
By the way, when you see one of the building collapse, I am pretty sure some of these clips were lifted of an earlier MGM film, "San Francisco". Also, Wallace Doughtery is the district attorney who introduces the show. Despite their saying he was the D.A., he actually was an actor!
This is another exceptional installment of this series. Like the other shorts, the production values are very nice (it was made by MGM) and the story hums along well. What I particularly liked about this one was its reliance on forensics--well before you might expect. In addition to the pollen the police also evaluate the steel using extreme magnification. Well done in every way.
By the way, when you see one of the building collapse, I am pretty sure some of these clips were lifted of an earlier MGM film, "San Francisco". Also, Wallace Doughtery is the district attorney who introduces the show. Despite their saying he was the D.A., he actually was an actor!