Life of Pasteur

French dialogue with English sub-titles. Starring Sascha Guitry. This French production, interpreting the highlights of the life of Louis Pasteur, the great French scientist, is considerably more the delineation of the character of an individual in a character study, than an active, stirring story of a fight against disease. Highlighting the picture are Pasteur's defense of his work before the Academy of Medicine, his action in saving the life of a boy bitten by a dog through the use of his hydrophobia serum, and finally the honors which are heaped upon him by the country, in the person of the President of France, in the closing years of the scientist's life. (Recommended for curriculum enrichment.)