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...front of the tube watching a horrow classic. When the film, starring Bela Lugosi, ended, I decided to go to sleep. As I got up shuddering to turn off the T.V., a voice interruped: "Stay tuned for Horror Classic II. This week's feature presentation, The Crime of Dr. Hallet...
...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...
...point to all this has, no doubt, eluded you. Dr. Hallet's crime was merely to forge the travelers checks of a dead man--no great loss. What would have made for a much more horrifying film would have been a story of Dr. Hallet--vis a vis 1973--conducting his research with hundreds of black or Chicano subjects. The film credits would have read: "This is a true story although the names of the characters have been changed to protect the innocent and the not-so innocent...
Sophomore Rich Hallet yesterday scored the first goal in the third quarter. In the final period senior Pedro Alarcon and sophomore Ben Phinney clinched the game for the Crimson...