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1919 British film by Alexander Butler

Damaged Goods
Directed byAlexander Butler
Written byEugène Brieux (play)
Produced byG.B. Samuelson
StarringCampbell Gullan
Marjorie Day
J. Fisher White
James Lindsay
Production
company
G.B. Samuelson Productions
Distributed byWoolf & Freedman Film Service
Release date
  • December 1919 (1919-12)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguagesSilent
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 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. The film was described by one reviewer as a "masterpiece".

Cast

References

  1. Low p.140
  2. 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

Film adaptations of Eugène Brieux's Les Avariés
The films of Alexander Butler


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