The horror of syphilis is explored in this turgid story. Ames is a health commissioner out to clean up his town and the legion of prostitutes spreading the dread disease. Walters is the reporter who helps him investigate the problem. A subplot involves Taggart as a naive young man who
contracts the disease and gives it to his pregnant wife, Blake. When a quack doctor takes his money but fails to cure him, Taggart comes back and accidentally kills the man in a fight. His lawyer manages to get Taggart to confess his reasons for killing the doctor and Taggart's name is cleared.
Meanwhile Ames and Walters have predictably fallen in love. The town council, worried about...
Released:
1941
Rated:
NR
Length:
85 mins