Damaged Goods is a 1937 American drama film directed by Phil Goldstone and starring Pedro de Cordoba, Phyllis Barry and Douglas Walton.[1] It is based on the play Les Avariés by Eugène Brieux and the subsequent adapted novel Damaged Goods by Upton Sinclair. A silent film adaptation Damaged Goods had been made in 1914.
The film's sets were designed by the art director Frank Dexter.
Plot
A young lawyer, engaged to the daughter of a Congressman, attends a party where he has a fling with another woman. Two weeks later he suspects that he has contracted syphilis from her.
Cast
- Pedro de Cordoba as Dr. Edward B. Walker
- Phyllis Barry as Margie
- Douglas Walton as George Dupont
- Arletta Duncan as Henrietta Allen
- Ferdinand Munier as Congressman Allen
- Esther Dale as Mrs. Dupont
- Clarence Wilson as Dr. N.R. Shryer
- Greta Meyer as Bertha
- Frank Melton as Jack
- Gretchen Thomas as Woman Patient
- Dorothy Short as Table Dancer
References
- ^ Schaefer p.194
Bibliography
- Schaefer, Eric. "Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!": A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959. Duke University Press, 1999.
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