Miss Evers' Boys – Die Gerechtigkeit siegt (TV Movie 1997)

Miss Evers’ Boys – Die Gerechtigkeit siegt: Directed by Joseph Sargent. With Alfre Woodard, Laurence Fishburne, Craig Sheffer, Joe Morton. The true story of the U.S. Government’s 1932 Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, in which a group of black test subjects were allowed to die, despite a cure having been developed.

“This is a tough one to review. For me, the subject is horrifying, and that the country I live in would do this is sickening, though of course, the U.S. President today would probably green light this kind of human suffering in a minute, in light of his recent actions against minorities. Some 400 odd men are observed, but not cured, and the justification is for the betterment of the u0026quot;raceu0026quot; and that those menu0026#39;s sacrifice would be for the greater good. Yeah, tell that to those men, who could have been cured with one shot of penicillin!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSo the subject = 5 stars. But the movie isnu0026#39;t that great. The romance subplot is really boring and uninteresting. And the quality of both the film and the sound is poor, though that might be the disc I watched. I would say you should watch it, due to the importance of the topic, but maybe skip any dating/romance scenes between Alfre Woodard and Laurence Fishburne, two dang fine actors who could not save those scenes. Oh, and just to see and hear Ossie Davis is always worth it!”