DAMAGED GOODS aka Forbidden Desire (1937) Pedro de Cordoba & Phyllis Barry | Drama | B&W

Damaged Goods is a 1937 American drama film directed by Phil Goldstone and starring Pedro de Cordoba, Phyllis Barry and Douglas Walton. It is based on the play Les Avariés by Eugène Brieux and the subsequent adapted novel Damaged Goods by Upton Sinclair. A silent film adaptation Damaged Goods had been made in 1914.

SYNOPSIS
A warning about the dangers of sexually-transmitted diseases, specifically syphilis.

A young lawyer, engaged to the daughter of a Congressman, attends a party where he has a fling with another woman. Two weeks later he suspects that he has contracted syphilis from her.

CAST & CREW
Pedro de Cordoba as Dr. Edward B. Walker
Phyllis Barry as Margie
Douglas Walton as George Dupont
Arletta Duncan as Henrietta Allen
Ferdinand Munier as Congressman Allen
Esther Dale as Mrs. Dupont
Clarence Wilson as Dr. N.R. Shryer
Greta Meyer as Bertha
Frank Melton as Jack
Gretchen Thomas as Woman Patient
Dorothy Short as Table Dancer

Directed by Phil Goldstone
Written by Joseph Hoffman
Based on Les Avariés by Eugène Brieux
Produced by Phil Goldstone
Cinematography Ira H. Morgan
Edited by Holbrook N. Todd
Production company Criterion Pictures
Distributed by Grand National Pictures
Release date May 22, 1937
Running time 61 minutes
Country United States
Language English

NOTES
The film's sets were designed by the art director Frank Dexter.