The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)

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Cast overview, first billed only:
	Paul Muni	...	Louis Pasteur
	Josephine Hutchinson	...	Marie Pasteur
	Anita Louise	...	Annette Pasteur
	Donald Woods	...	Dr. Jean Martel
	Fritz Leiber	...	Dr. Charbonnet
	Henry O'Neill	...	Dr. Emile Roux
	Porter Hall	...	Dr. Rossignol
	Raymond Brown	...	Dr. Radisse
	Akim Tamiroff	...	Dr. Zaranoff
	Halliwell Hobbes	...	Dr. Lister
	Frank Reicher	...	Dr. Pfeiffer
	Dickie Moore	...	Joseph Meister
	Ruth Robinson	...	Mrs. Meister
	Walter Kingsford	...	Napoleon III
	Iphigenie Castiglioni	...	Empress Eugénie

Storyline

In 1860 Paris, chemist Louis Pasteur is considered a quack within the medical community for advocating that doctors and surgeons wash their hands and boil their instruments to destroy microbes that can kill their patients. He came across this belief when discovering microscopic organisms in sour wine, the organisms which could be killed if heated sufficiently. The belief among the scientific community at large is that the organisms are the result of disease and not the cause. This belief is despite the fact that thirty percent of women die in childbirth due to child bed disease, accounting for twenty thousand annual deaths in Paris alone. The debate takes Pasteur all the way to a meeting with Emperor Napoleon III and his physician, Dr. Charbonnet, who is one of the leading opponents of Pasteur. Several years later - France now a republic - much of Pasteur's reputation changes as a government... Written by Huggo  

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