Quacks and Nostrums
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Quacks and Nostrums is a short film from 1959 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
Shows the ways in which medical quacks dupe the consumer and the steps taken by local and federal agencies to protect the public. A young man grows concerned at his mother's fascination with a local alternative medicine practitioner. Skeptical of the practitioner's healing claims, he seeks confirmation of his beliefs from medical and public health professionals, and begins to conspire with them against his mother. Typical of medically motivated critiques of unconventional medicine, this film also recalls the anticommunist witchhunts of the fifties.
| Quacks and Nostrums | |
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| Produced by | Crawley Films |
Production company | Crawley Films |
| Distributed by | Crawley Films |
Release date | 1959 |
Running time | 18:51 |
| Language | English |
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