Damaged Goods

Damaged Goods (1914) is an American silent drama 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. It is believed to have begun the sex hygiene/venereal disease film craze of the 1910s. 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