Sex Madness (1938)
She sought Big Thrills... and caught Big Trouble!
A young beauty queen travels to New York to further her modelling career, but contracts syphilis after being tricked into a sexual encounter. She is torn between the prospect of a slow, intensive but proven therapy and a supposed miracle cure.
- Date of release
- 1938-04-28
- TMDB
- 3.0 / 10 (27)
- Runtime
- 59m
- Genres
- Drama, Horror
- Director
- Dwain Esper
Casting
- Vivian McGill — Millicent Hamilton
- Rose Tapley — Mrs. Hamilton
- Al Rigali — Mr. Hamilton
- Mark Daniels — Wendel Hope
- Linda Lee Hill — Sheila Wayne
- Ruth Edell — Mrs. Fay
- Charles Olcott — Paul Lorenz
- Ed Redding — Dr. Hampton
- Pat Lawrence — Tom Lorenz
- Allen Tower — Dr. Harris
- Richard Bengali — Mr. Maynard
- W. Blake — Dr. Grenoble
Interesting facts
Sex Madness is a 1938 American exploitation film directed by Dwain Esper. It is along the lines of Reefer Madness, supposedly to warn teenagers and young adults of the dangers of venereal diseases, specifically syphilis. The film stars Vivian McGill, Rose Tapley, Al Rigeli, Stanley Barton and Linda Lee Hill.
Production
American film director and author Bret Wood argues in his book, Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Film, that while Dwain Esper is often credited as the director of Sex Madness, he believes that Joseph Seiden is the more likely candidate, and further stated the Internet Movie Database still credits the wrong director on the film.
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