The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)

Directors

William Dieterle

Cast

Paul Muni, Josephine Hutchinson, Anita Louise, Donald Woods, Fritz Leiber, Henry O'Neill, Porter Hall, Raymond Brown, Akim Tamiroff

The story

In 1860 Paris, a distraught man murders his wife's doctor. Chemist Louis Pasteur has publicized the theory that microbes cause diseases. Therefore, doctors should avoid spreading by washing their hands and sterilizing their instruments in boiling water.

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