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Damaged Goods (film)

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Genre
  
Drama

Cast
  
Richard Bennett

Distributed by
  
Mutual Film

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Language
  
Silent English intertitles

Director
  
Tom Ricketts Richard Bennett

Writer
  
Eugene Brieux
,
Harry A. Pollard

Release date
  
September 1, 1914 (1914-09-01)

Directors
  
Richard Bennett, Tom Ricketts

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Genres
  
Short Film, Silent film, Drama, Indie film, Black-and-white

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Damaged Goods (1914) is an American silent film directed by Tom Ricketts, starring Richard Bennett. It is based on Eugène Brieux's play Les Avariés (1901) about a young couple who contract syphilis. No print of the film is known to exist, and Damaged Goods is considered to be a lost film. It is believed to have begun the sex hygiene/venereal disease film craze of the 1910s.

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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, and was closer to an exploitation film about premarital sex without mentioning venereal disease.

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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

    • References

    Damaged Goods (film) Wikipedia
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    Damaged Goods (film) IMDb