The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) 7.2
The biography of the pioneering French microbiologist who helped revolutionize agriculture and medicine. Director:William Dieterle |
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The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) 7.2
The biography of the pioneering French microbiologist who helped revolutionize agriculture and medicine. Director:William Dieterle |
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Josephine Hutchinson | ... | |
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Annette Pasteur
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Donald Woods | ... |
Dr. Jean Martel
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Fritz Leiber | ... |
Dr. Charbonnet
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Henry O'Neill | ... |
Dr. Emile Roux
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Porter Hall | ... |
Dr. Rossignol
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Raymond Brown | ... |
Dr. Radisse
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| Akim Tamiroff | ... |
Dr. Zaranoff
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Halliwell Hobbes | ... |
Dr. Lister
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| Frank Reicher | ... |
Dr. Pfeiffer
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| Dickie Moore | ... |
Joseph Meister
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Ruth Robinson | ... |
Mrs. Meister
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Walter Kingsford | ... | |
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Iphigenie Castiglioni | ... |
Empress Eugénie
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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 sanctioned experiment with anthrax and sheep shows that a vaccine created by Pasteur proves ... Written by Huggo
Much better than The Life of Emilie Zola and Juarez. This movie stars Paul Muni in an Oscar winning performance as a scientist who is looking for a cure for anthrax and then rabies, all the other doctors laugh at him. Paul Muni does a good job and this is the same director of Life of Emilie Zola and Juarez.