Magic bullets Ehrlich, Paul, 1854-1915. Drug Therapy -- history Syphilis -- drug therapy This film stars Edward G. Robinson as Nobel laureate Dr. Paul Erhlich, who developed a cure for syphilis. Erhlich and his colleagues experiment on animals with chemicals to develop cures for various diseases, which eventually leads to finding a link between these earlier experiments and the search for a “magic bullet” to cure venereal disease. Erhlich also struggles to maintain funding and support for his work. After a successful test in a human patient, the cure is then mass-produced and made available to the world. Unfortunately, the exhaustion from all of this work catches up with Erhlich. Credits: Producer, Jack L. Warner ; director, William Dieterle. Cast: Edward G. Robinson. Received: (date unknown); donation; from the Center for Disease Control, United States Public Health Service. [Washington, DC] : The Service, [1943], c1940 Robinson, Edward G., 1893-1973. United States. Public Health Service. Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967) Biography Moving image 031 min. Black and white Live action nlm:nlmuid-8500844A-vid 8500844A http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/8500844A OCLC: 31668900 English The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/