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Damaged Goods (1914) is an American silent film directed by Tom Ricketts, starring Richard Bennett. It is based on Eugène Brieux's play Les Avariés (1901) about a young couple who contract syphilis. No print of the film is known to exist, making it a lost film.[1] It is believed to have begun the sex hygiene/venereal disease film craze of the 1910s.[2]

Damaged Goods
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Directed by	Tom Ricketts
Written by	Harry A. Pollard (adaptation)
Based on	Les Avariés by Eugène Brieux
Starring	Richard Bennett Adrienne Morrison
Cinematography	Thomas B. Middleton
Production company	American Film Company
Distributed by	Mutual Film Corporation
Release date	September 1, 1914 (1914-09-01)
Languages	Silent English intertitles

The play was adapted into a British silent film Damaged Goods in 1919. A sound film based on the Brieux play, also titled Damaged Goods (1937) was directed by Phil Goldstone, released by Grand National Pictures.

Cast

• Richard Bennett as George Dupont
• Adrienne Morrison as a Girl of the Streets
• Maud Milton as Mrs. Dupont
• Olive Templeton as Henriette Locke
• Josephine Ditt as Mrs. James Forsythe
• Jacqueline Moore as Seamstress
• Florence Short as Nurse
• Louis Bennison as Dr. Clifford
• John Steppling as Senator Locke
• William Bertram as a Quack Doctor
• George Ferguson as the Quack's Assistant
• Charlotte Burton as Mrs. Lester

See also

• List of lost films

References

External links

• Damaged Goods at IMDb
• Damaged Goods entry in the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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