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...Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Albert Basserman, Sig Rumann, Maria Ouspenskaya; TIME...
Depicting the life of a great research scientist who has to fight against the formidable opposition of conservatism, "Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet" is one of screendom's finer productions. Sensitive spectators may be titillated by the screen debut of syhphilis, but the outstanding fact about this powerful picture is the truly magnificent acting of Edward G. Robinson. As Dr. Paul Ehrlich, he forsakes the tough-guy aspect for which he is famed and turns out a performance that must be considered for academy honors at the end of the year...
When the reactionary bigwigs of a large German hospital fire him for being too independent, young Dr. Ehrlich enters a long life of prodigious work--during which he finds the method for recognizing tuberculosis germs, discovers a diptheria serum, and gives the world a cure for its devasting "social disease." At a very swank dinner party one dear old lady asks Dr. Ehrlich what is working on now. "Syphilis," he replies, and thirty months drop open in shocked amazement...
...Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Albert Basserman; TIME...
...Whether Ehrlich's laboratory assistant (Edward Norris) really turned himself into a human guinea pig, inoculated himself with 606 after it had worked on an ape, is unimportant. To criticisms of such free handling of biography in his pictures, Director Dieterle long ago wrote the best answer. Said he: ".. . The dramatization of a man's life is condensing, and not copying, the historical facts. It is the steam, and not the water, that moves the engine...