Damaged Goods (1914 film)
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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 |
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| Distributed by | Mutual Film Corporation |
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Running time | 7 reels |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent (English intertitles) |
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, although according to the silent film survival database a fragment survives. 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.