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Damaged Goods (1914 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Damaged Goods' (1914) is an American silent film directed by Tom Ricketts, starring Richard Bennett. It is based on Eugne Brieux's play 'Les Avaris' (1901) about a young couple who contract syphilis. No print of the film is known to exist, making it a lost film. It is believed to have begun the sex hygiene/venereal disease film craze of the 1910s.Eric Schaefer, 'Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!: A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959' (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999).
The play was adapted into a British silent film 'Damaged Goods' in 1919. A sound film based on the Brieux play, also titled 'Damaged Goods' (1937) was directed by Phil Goldstone, released by Grand National Pictures.
Cast
*Richard Bennett as George Dupont
*Adrienne Morrison as a Girl of the Streets
*Maud Milton as Mrs. Dupont
*Olive Templeton as Henriette Locke
*Josephine Ditt as Mrs. James Forsythe
*Jacqueline Moore as Seamstress
*Florence Short as Nurse
*Louis Bennison as Dr. Clifford
*John Steppling as Senator Locke
*William Bertram as a Quack Doctor
*George Ferguson as the Quack's Assistant
*Charlotte Burton as Mrs. Lester
See also
*List of lost films
References
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