Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9785552669967 Format: NTSC ISBN: 5552669967 Label: Something Weird Video Manufacturer: Something Weird Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Something Weird Video Studio: Something Weird Video
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Customer Rating: Summary: Exploitation classic! Comment: "Tipsy upper-class snotnose George Du Pont gets the gift that keeps on giving when his buddies bring a "little surprise" to his bachelor party -- namely a bunch of women. Loose women. Easy women. Women with diseases... "I really shouldn't be doing this. I'm to be married next month," says George to a hooker named Margie. "Why waste a night because of next month?" replies the clap bait. Fade out... And fade in to George concerned about the "tiny ulcers breaking out on him." He goes to see V.D. specialist Dr. Walker (Devil Doll's PEDRO DE CORDOBA). The unctous doc is a living encyclopedia of True V.D. Facts who spews out lectures the way ordinary people blink. He also confirms that, yes, Georgie boy has a dose but, after proper treatment, should be cured and ready for marriage in about... oh... three or four years!
"Aghast and afraid to tell anyone the truth, George informs his fiancée that he wants to postpone the wedding because he has... uh... well... um... what do you call it?... oh yeah... "lung trouble." This is not greeted kindly by his fiancée's extremely girthful father, Congressman Allen, so Georgie goes to see Dr. Shryer (CLARENCE WILSON, Helen Mack's doomed daddy in Son of Kong), a quack who claims he can cure him in three or four months, "with methods known to but a chosen few."
"Yeah, you guessed the rest. Six months later, George gets married and, nine months after that, his wife gives birth to a baby girl... with syphilitic pimples! As Congressman Allen angrily screams: "It's the poisoned blood of the prostitute which poisons my daughter and her baby!!!"
"This late '30s clap opera, "the producer's sincere effort to cooperate in President Roosevelt's educational campaign to rid America of its greatest menace," boasts an interesting pedigree. Damaged Goods began as a French play which had its American stage debut at New York's Grand Theatre in 1913. A silent version was filmed the following year and re-released in 1917 and 1927. This, the first sound version, was adapted for the screen by UPTON SINCLAIR, the famed muckraking socialist novelist, was re-released as Forbidden Desires, Sins of Love, and Marriage Forbidden, and should not, of course, be confused with Edgar Ulmer's similarly themed Damaged Lives or the 1960 teens-go-wild V.D. Damaged Goods." (Description by Frank Henenlotter).
