Damaged Lives
- For the 1914 silent film based on the same play, see Damaged Goods (1914 film).
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| Directed by | Edgar G. Ulmer |
| Produced by | J. J. Allen (producer) Maxwell Cohn (producer) Nat Cohn (producer) |
| Written by | Eugène Brieux (play Les Avariés) Donald Davis (screenplay) Edgar G. Ulmer (adaptation) |
| Starring | See below |
| Cinematography | Allen G. Siegler |
| Editing by | Otto Meyer |
| Release date(s) | 22 May 1933 |
| Running time | 61 minutes |
| Country | Canada, USA |
| Language | English |
Damaged Lives (1933) is a Canadian / American exploitation film produced by Columbia Pictures and directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. The film is based on the French play Les Avariés (1901) by Eugène Brieux,[1] about a couple that contracts a venereal disease.
The film is also known as The Shocking Truth (American reissue title). IMDB says this was filmed at General Service Studios. The final The End title on the Internet Archive print says it was an Educational Film Exchanges, Inc. release.
There have been other films based on Brieux's play. One was Damaged Goods made in 1914 and another also titled Damaged Goods in 1937. The 1937 version was directed by Phil Goldstone with a totally different cast, and was released by Grand National Pictures. It was closer to an exploitation film about premarital sex without mentioning venereal disease.[2]
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[edit] Plot summary
The film involves an extramarital encounter that nearly leads the wife of the main character into killing herself and her husband.
A boss insists that a young executive, with an important job and a long term girlfriend, go out with him to a party and while out at the party he sleeps with a young wealthy woman, Elise (Charlotte Merriam), and contracts syphilis from her. The girlfriend is so upset that she commits suicide.
[edit] Differences from play
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[edit] Cast
- Diane Sinclair as Joan Bradley
- Lyman Williams as Donald Bradley Jr.
- Harry Myers as Nat Franklin
- Marceline Day as Laura Hall
- Jason Robards Sr. as Dr. Bill Hall
- Charlotte Merriam as Elise Cooper
- Murray Kinnell as Dr. Vincent Leonard
- George Irving as Donald Bradley Sr.
- Cecilia Parker as Rosie
- Almeda Fowler as Mrs. Bradley
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[edit] Production
Filmed in 1933, this cautionary tale was produced under the name Weldon Pictures, because Columbia did not want to be associated with the topic of the film.[citation needed] Along with the controversial subject matter, this is also noteworthy for containing one of the earliest filmed nude scenes in a sequence where a group of fun-loving women strip naked and go skinny dipping.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Damaged Lives at the Internet Movie Database
- Damaged Lives is available for free download at the Internet Archive [more]
- Movie.go listing
- Damaged Goods (1937) at IMDB
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