Yellow Jack (1938)

Directors

George B. Seitz

Cast

Andy Devine, Buddy Ebsen, Charles Coburn, Henry Hull, Lewis Stone, Robert Montgomery, Virginia Bruce

The story

Major Walter Reed of the United States Army works to diagnose and treat yellow fever (called “yellow jack”) in Cuba at the end of the 19th century. U.S. Army Medical Corps doctors study the theory of Cuban doctor Carlos Finlay that the disease is caused by bites from infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, a concept that had previously been ridiculed.

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