Damaged Goods

Damaged Goods (1914)

"Damaged Goods" pictures the terrible consequences of vice and the physical ruin that follows the abuse of moral law. It is a stirring plea for a pure life before marriage, in order to make impossible the transmission of hereditary traits to future generations.

Date de sortie
1914-08-31
TMDB
1.0 / 10 (2)
Durée
1 h 10 min
Genres
Drame
Réalisateur
Tom Ricketts

Distribution

Anecdotes

Damaged Goods (1914) is an American silent drama 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, although according to the silent film survival database a fragment survives. It is believed to have begun the sex hygiene/venereal disease film craze of the 1910s.

Production and release history

Film historian Terry Ramsaye stated that the film was "pretentiously made" for a cost of less than $50,000, including marketing, and that "its states' rights ... sold for $600,000, thus indicating a box-office take of probably more than $2,000,000". According to a 1915 account, audience demand for the film in Detroit was so great that police were required to control the crowds at the theater.

Damaged Goods was re-released in a "new edition" in 1917, perhaps in response to concerns about the spread of venereal disease among World War I soldiers. It was re-released again in 1919.

In 1929 a synchronized soundtrack was reportedly added to the film for a states' rights re-release.

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