Damaged Goods (1919 film)

{{Short description|1919 British film by Alexander Butler}}

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{{Infobox film

| name = Damaged Goods

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| director = Alexander Butler

| producer = G.B. Samuelson

| writer = Eugène Brieux (play)

| starring = Campbell Gullan
Marjorie Day
J. Fisher White
James Lindsay

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| studio = G.B. Samuelson Productions

| distributor = Woolf & Freedman Film Service

| released = {{film date|1919|12}}

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = Silent
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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 1901 play Les Avariés 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.Low p.140 The film was described by one reviewer as a "masterpiece".Bamford p.20

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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.