Damaged Goods is a 1937 American drama film directed by Phil Goldstone and starring Pedro de Cordoba, Phyllis Barry and Douglas Walton.Schaefer p.194 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
Bibliography Schaefer, Eric. "Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!": A History of Exploitation Films, 1919-1959. Duke University Press, 1999.
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