09-05-2006, 03:17 PM
Quote:a doctor who gets syphillus during the war by operating on a patient. It's not a spoiler because it happens in the first scene and it's described on the outside of the box. He cuts himself, then operates with out a glove because it's war time, thus soaking his thumb in the patient's blood for over an hour.
Later, Mifune, as the doctor, has to deal with said patient, who is an unrepentant cad, a drunk, and gave his pregnant wife the clap too. Then there's the baby. We all know what the clap did to babies in the 50's. Anyway, it's an incredibly dated scene since the notion of a virgin doctor stigmatized by the clap is dated, but Mifune pulls it off magnificently. It's a glimmer of what was to come with Mifune's signature performances.
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