- For the 1919 UK film based on the same play, see Damaged Goods (1919 film). For the 1933 film based on the same play, see Damaged Lives.
| Damaged Goods | |
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| Directed by | Tom Ricketts |
| Written by | Harry A. Pollard (adaptation) |
| Based on | Les Avariés by Eugène Brieux |
| Starring | Richard Bennett Adrienne Morrison |
| Cinematography | Thomas B. Middleton |
Production company | American Film Company |
| Distributed by | Mutual Film Corporation |
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| Language | Silent English intertitles |
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, making it a lost film.[1] It is believed to have begun the sex hygiene/venereal disease film craze of the 1910s.[2]
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
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Herald for Damaged Goods (1914)
- 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
- ^ "Damaged Goods". silentera.com. Retrieved March 17, 2013.
- ^ Eric Schaefer, Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!: A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959 (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999).
External links
- Damaged Goods at IMDb
- Damaged Goods entry in the AFI Catalog of Feature Films