22. The Painted Veil (1934)
The Painted Veil is a drama based on the 1925 novel of the same name by W. Somerset Maugham.
While the movie’s main plot isn’t about a virus or pandemic – it’s actually about a woman who accompanies her new husband to China while he conducts medical research, then falls in love with another man – it does heavily feature a cholera epidemic in the Far East.
It was the first of three adaptations of the book (the others being 1957’s The Seventh Sin and 2006’s The Painted Veil) and it starred Greta Garbo.
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