

Your grandfather's government made him watch this before D-Day. Yes, really.
World War II public education film about sexually transmitted diseases focused on syphilis.
Direction
Lubin somehow made VD lectures feel like noir B-movies.
Production
Military-medical industrial complex aesthetic before it had a name.

Director
Arthur Lubin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of a massive WWII VD prevention campaign; over 4 million military personnel saw similar films. The government feared syphilis more than some enemy combatants.
Director Arthur Lubin later gave the world Francis the Talking Mule AND the 1960s Batman TV show. From venereal disease to 'POW! ZAP!'—what a career arc.
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