Wednesday, October 29, 2014

392. Stigma (1972)

October 29, 2014

After serving time in prison for performing an illegal abortion, a young and talented doctor moves to a small coastal town to practice medicine under his mentor. Unfortunately for him, his mentor passes away before he arrives, and several people in town are incredibly racist and try to run him out. He perseveres though, as his mentor would have had him do, and gets to the bottom of a potentially widespread syphilis outbreak in the town caused by all the young folks having rampant, unprotected sex on some rocks by the ocean. It served not only as an entertaining movie, but also as an educational film about the devastating nature of sexually transmitted diseases. I dug it.

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