Damaged Goods (1919 film)

Damaged Goods
Directed by	Alexander Butler
Produced by	G.B. Samuelson
Written by	Eugène Brieux (play)
Starring	Campbell Gullan Marjorie Day J. Fisher White James Lindsay
Production company	G.B. Samuelson Productions
Distributed by	Woolf & Freedman Film Service
Release dates	December 1919
Running time	6,500 feet[1]
Country	United Kingdom
Language	Silent English intertitles

Damaged Goods is a 1919 British silent drama film directed by Alexander Butler and starring Campbell Gullan, Marjorie Day and J. Fisher White. It was based on the play Les Aviaries by Eugène Brieux. Because of the play's controversial tackling of the subject of venereal disease, the film had issues with censor boards and attracted a degree of notoriety.^[2] The film was described by one reviewer as a "masterpiece".^[3]

Cast

• Campbell Gullan as George Dupont
• Marjorie Day as Henrietta Louches
• J. Fisher White as Doctor
• James Lindsay as Rouvenal
• Joan Vivian Reese as Edith Wray
• Bassett Roe as Henry Louches
• Annie Esmond as Marie Dupont
• Winifred Dennis as The Wife

References

1. Low p.481
2. Low p.140
3. Bamford p.20

Bibliography

• Bamford, Kenton. Distorted Images: British National Identity and Film in the 1920s. I.B. Tauris, 1999.
• Low, Rachael. History of the British Film, 1918-1929. George Allen & Unwin, 1971.

External links

• Damaged Goods at the Internet Movie Database