Robert Livingston is a research doctor. He's set his eyes on quacks and unregulated nostrums, and lectures on the air about them. He has just completed experiments that prove that Pierre Watkins' radium tonic is not just pointless; it's deadly. Watkins' business, however, is so successful that he can get Livingston pulled off the air, and efforts to stop his sales are blocked by lawyers. So Livingston teams up with 'testing expert' Granville Bates and his daughter, Grace Bradley, only to find that they're running a racket soaking the quacks.
Although the copy I looked at was trimmed from 67 to 52 minutes, it held together pretty well, and director Irving Pichel directs a fine cast that that includes Smiley Burnette and Byron Foulgar in a story that has some nice curves in it and something real to say about its subject. The last few minutes fall into standard B movie tropes, but even those are decently handled.
Although the copy I looked at was trimmed from 67 to 52 minutes, it held together pretty well, and director Irving Pichel directs a fine cast that that includes Smiley Burnette and Byron Foulgar in a story that has some nice curves in it and something real to say about its subject. The last few minutes fall into standard B movie tropes, but even those are decently handled.