THE MAGIC BULLET

Evening Star, Issue 23681, 14 September 1940, Page 5

THE MAGIC BULLET

From a cave in Egypt ... a fiery 6ven ... a woman’s heart . . . comes a great adventure to the screen. The story of ‘ Dr Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet,’ in which Edward G. Robinson has his greatest role, and gives a performance equal to, if not better than, , those which Paul Muni gave in ‘ The Story of Louis Pasteur ’ and in ‘ Emile Zola.’

* Dr Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet,’ under the direction of William Dieterle, is the story of a man who lived. A tale of action and of courage that will excite every man. Forged in the white-hot firo of one man’s courage, the “ magic bullet ” is mankind’s strangest weapon, and the story of_ its discovery is one of the most heroic ever told.

In telling it the producers, Warner Brothers, have opened up an entirely new vista in thrilling and action-filled screen entertainment. It is not merely a dramatisation of Ehrlich’s research and discoveries. It gives a completely rounded picture of the great man’s life from young manhood to his death, his home and his family life, his small failures as well as his great triumphs. It is filled with action, romance; in' short, everything that made him the great man that he was. Hindered and persecuted by the very people whose good he sought during a lifetime filled

with incredible adventure, Dr Ehrlich sought and manned that recurrent dream of every sincere microbe hunter, a magic bullet that would kill microbes, just as a cartridge from a rifle would kill big game'. For Dr Ehrlich this dream came true, when he announced to the world that he had discovered a cure to mankind’s most dreaded scourge.