Damaged Goods
Directed byPhil Goldstone
Written byJoseph Hoffman
Based onLes Avariés by Eugène Brieux
Produced byPhil Goldstone
Irving Starr
Starring
CinematographyIra H. Morgan
Edited byHolbrook N. Todd
Production
company
Criterion Pictures
Distributed byGrand National Pictures
Release date
May 22, 1937
Running time
61 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

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

References

  1. 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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