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TITLE Hunt for CM24 (1997) (TV Film)

ALT__TITLE Jagd nach CM 24

DISABILITY Cancer

COUNTRY Germany

LENGTH 90

GENRE Thriller

DIRECTOR Peter Ristau

CAST Bill Sage

Amanda Ooms

Gesche Tebbenhoff
   

NOTES A young research scientist has developed a drug which purports to be a quick cure for cancer. A young woman with an inoperable tumour of the spine comes to him and asks for the treatment to be tried on her. He refuses because has not been through all the necessary trials. But he's young and good looking and she's young and good looking and he gives in. However he does make her sign a form of consent. He injects the drug, she reacts badly and he rushes her to hospital where he leaves her. The laboratory where he works discovers what he has done, he is shut out of the lab, the woman dies and the death is covered up. The film has become a convoluted thriller.
Later he gets a phone call from a clinic Switzerland which appears to be from the woman he treated. Rushing there he discovers that the clinic's record shows she died five years ago. About this point I became confused but since this is a rather dull thriller I wasn't too bothered.

 


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