Film Medical Theme: Peste

Arrowsmith

Language : English

Year : 1931

Medical Theme : Plague / Doctor

Actors : Ronald Colman, Helen Hayes, Richard Bennett, A.E.Anson, Clarence Brooks, Claude King

Storyline : Martin Arrowsmith is a medical researcher who is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine. Martin is an idealistic medical doctor, who does not seek riches, but wants to help his fellow men. Martin is supposed to test a new serum and he's under orders as a researcher to only administer the real stuff to half his patients, and, a placebo to the others as a control group. Here the racism of the time is reflected as the controlled group consisted of Blacks, probably descendants of runaway slaves.

Panic in the Streets

Language : English

Year : 1950

Medical Theme : Infectious Disease/Pneumonic Plague

Actors : Barbara Bel Geddes, Richard Widmark, Paul Douglas, Jack Palance

Storyline : This film is about how Clinton Reed, an officer of the U.S.Public Health Service and a police officer Warren(Paul Douglas) prevent the spread of an epidemic called Pneumonic Plague. They have only two days to investigate without creating panic among the masses.