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...surprise, and dismay, what ensued could hardly be deemed a "horror classic:" a cast of unknowns, a script right out of a booby prize collection (neither of which had ever disturbed me before), and a story of a dedicated missionary-type healer-researcher in his quest for the cure of red fever. The crimes: forgery and assuming a false identity. Having expected this "classic" at least to provide me with some of the horrification stimuli of Frankenstein or Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, you can probably understand my disappointment. Nevertheless, I watched the entire flick...
...plot in brief: The brilliant middle-aged Dr. Hallet, accompanied by the young, but also very brilliant, protege, are in Indonesia, or the like, finding a cure for the fatal tropical disease. When Hallet thinks he has found it, he prepares to infect himself with the desease, to try out his proposed innoculation. But the young, impetuous (and either stupid or suicidal) assistant preempts his mentor by infecting himself...
Well, that was only 20 minutes into the movie, so as you might have expected, the "cure" fails. Before his death, however, the young doctor records what he has determined to be the real cure. Dr. Hallet then assumes his young assistant's identity and forges his travelers checks, the funding for the research having been cut. And he procedes, all in the name of science, to develop the cure based on his protege's notes, and in his protege's name...
...years earlier--a study of syphillis. The predominantly black participants, unaware of the nature of their disease, were offered elaborate free funerals and other appetizing fringe benefits in exchange for their cooperation in the study. Even after penicillin became readily available the researchers of the Tuskegee study withheld the cure from their subjects...
...slums pricked Arrupe's conscience. "I began asking, 'Why did I come into this world?'" he later wrote. He made a pilgrimage to Lourdes, where he witnessed what he was certain were three miraculous healings. "I felt that God was calling me not only to cure bodies but also to cure souls." In 1927, at the age of 19, he entered the Jesuit novitiate at Loyola...