Test Tube Babies (film)


Test Tube Babies, also known as Blessed Are They, Sins of Love and The Pill, is a 1948 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.

Plot

A young married couple find themselves drifting apart. Wife Cathy Bennet finds temporary pleasure at swinging parties or in the arms of another man, Frank Grover. Husband George Bennet confronts his wife about the widening chasm between them; she tells him she feels they are somehow incomplete without children. She undergoes testing to see why she hasn't conceived. George, who has accompanied her, is asked to also undergo testing and is found to be the problem: he is sterile. Physician Dr. Wright suggests artificial insemination using a sperm donor. This proves successful and the Bennetts begin a new and happy phase of their marriage.

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