An extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease.An extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease.An extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease.
Jason Robards Sr.
- Dr. Bill Hall
- (as Jason Robards)
Victor Potel
- Captain Olaf Jensen
- (as Vic Potel)
Gladys Blake
- Marie
- (uncredited)
Harrison Greene
- Dr. Hortonn
- (uncredited)
Edmund Mortimer
- Night Club Patron
- (uncredited)
Phillips Smalley
- Jackson
- (uncredited)
Dorothy Vernon
- Maid
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAlthough the film's credits say it was produced and released by Weldon Pictures, it was actually filmed and distributed by Columbia. Weldon Pictures was a dummy company set up by Columbia, which didn't want to be associated with the film's topic, syphilis. Producer Nat Cohn was the brother of Columbia's head, Harry Cohn.
- GoofsThe uncredited child actor in a scene with actresses Almeda Fowler and Marceline Day interrupts their conversation by pushing his toy grizzly bear's growl button repeatedly, obviously not in the script. Day, playing his mother, improvises: "No, no, dear. Here, Mother'll take this," and takes the toy from him to the opposite side of the set where he can't get to it. For the rest of the scene the boy stays frozen in a state of consternation.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Big City (1937)
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Damaged Lives (1933)
* 1/2 (out of 4)
A year before directing the first team up between Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in The Black Cat, director Edgar G. Ulmer made this cheapie warning film. A man goes out and sleeps with a city girl, goes back home and marries his sweetheart but soon learns the city girl had syphilis. This isn't as silly as most of these warning films but the over-dramatic nature still doesn't work. The film drags on even though it lasts just over an hour. When it comes to these warning films I think the more camp the better and this one here is just too straight to keep it entertaining.
* 1/2 (out of 4)
A year before directing the first team up between Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi in The Black Cat, director Edgar G. Ulmer made this cheapie warning film. A man goes out and sleeps with a city girl, goes back home and marries his sweetheart but soon learns the city girl had syphilis. This isn't as silly as most of these warning films but the over-dramatic nature still doesn't work. The film drags on even though it lasts just over an hour. When it comes to these warning films I think the more camp the better and this one here is just too straight to keep it entertaining.
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- Michael_Elliott
- Mar 8, 2008
Details
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- Budget
- $10,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 10 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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