Damaged Lives

Damaged Lives 1933 is a CanadianAmerican PreCode exploitation film produced by Columbia Pictures and directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. The film is based on an original script about a couple that contracts a venereal disease. The film is also known as The Shocking Truth American reissue title. IMDB says this was filmed at General Service Studios. The final The End title on the Internet Archive print says it was an Educational Film Exchanges, Inc. release.

A boss insists that a young executive, with an important job and a long term girlfriend, go out with him to a party and while out at the party he sleeps with a young wealthy woman, Elise Charlotte Merriam, and contracts syphilis from her. The girlfriend is so upset that she commits suicide.Filmed in 1933, this cautionary tale was produced under the name Weldon Pictures, because Columbia did not want to be associated with the topic of the film.citation needed Along with the controversial subject matter, this is also noteworthy for containing one of the earliest filmed nude scenes in a sequence where a group of funloving women strip naked and go skinny dipping. ........

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