Phonies Beware!

1956
8min

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Agrega una trama en tu idiomaThis Screenliner short shows how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) looks at drug claims that may be fraudulent. In this case, a product called "Elixirex" is advertised as a cure-al... Leer todoThis Screenliner short shows how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) looks at drug claims that may be fraudulent. In this case, a product called "Elixirex" is advertised as a cure-all for almost any ailment, including arthritis, rheumatism, and diabetes. After a diabetes ... Leer todoThis Screenliner short shows how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) looks at drug claims that may be fraudulent. In this case, a product called "Elixirex" is advertised as a cure-all for almost any ailment, including arthritis, rheumatism, and diabetes. After a diabetes patient dies following use of Elixirex, FDA inspectors move their investigation into high ... Leer todo

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Bland Short

Phonies Beware! (1956)

** (out of 4)

Here is yet another bland documentary short from the RKO-Pathe Streamliner series. This time out we're told what the Food and Drug Administration does before we get to the main story, which is an ad in a newspaper that promises to cure a wide range of diseases including diabetes. It turns out that a diabetic ordered the product and died shortly after using it so the FDA agent must follow the evidence to get a conviction. Like most films in the series, this one here is just way too dry and boring to really work even though the actual story is interesting and could have been made into a better film. While watching the short I couldn't help but think MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series could have done so much more with the material and the viewer would have been left with a much better film. One of the biggest problems in telling the story the way it's told here is that you have to put some of the blame on the man because he quit taking his insulin shots. As a diabetic I can tell you this would be an incredibly stupid thing to do and once you hear what in the "bottle" sold to the man who can see that it wasn't that which killed him but the fact that he quit taking his shots.