The dangers of the dread venereal disease syphilis are depicted in this earnest drama from the 1940s. The story centers upon an intrepid health commissioner who is out to get rid of the tawdry hookers responsible for spreading the disease.

The Quiller Memorandum
1966
5.9/10

Hungry Hearts
2015
6.6/10

Radium Girls
2020
6.7/10

The Truth About Emanuel
2013
6.0/10

Extraordinary Measures
2010
6.3/10

The Locket
1946
6.4/10

The Assault
2014
6.8/10

Won't Back Down
2012
6.1/10

Don't Come Knocking
2005
6.2/10

Knock on Any Door
1949
6.2/10

No Name on the Bullet
1959
6.6/10

Kid Galahad
1962
6.1/10

Framed
1947
6.5/10

Cradle Will Rock
1999
6.5/10

Wonderstruck
2017
6.1/10

Waiting for Anya
2020
6.3/10

The Damned Don't Cry
1950
7.0/10

Each Dawn I Die
1939
6.8/10

Return
2011
6.4/10

The Game of Their Lives
2005
5.9/10
Black Venus
2010
6.6/10