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Test Tube Babies (1948)

Test Tube Babies poster
Directed by
W. Merle Connell
Genre
drama film, exploitation film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 10m
Rating
3.5 of 10 from 23 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young married couple struggle with infertility. They seek help from a doctor who offers artificial insemination as a solution. The film mixes medical information with suggestive scenes.

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What happens

Test Tube Babies, also known as Blessed Are They (American reissue title), Sins of Love (American reissue title) and The Pill (America reissue title, recut version), is a 1948 American independent exploitation film directed by W. Merle Connell and produced by George Weiss. It is a narrative about artificial insemination with scenes of nudity and sexual promiscuity included. One scene shows the male lead character's sperm viewed through a microscope. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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