EMPIRE
One of the most amazing real-life dramas ever filmed—its entertainment qualities all the more gripping by virtue of the fact that such a story is actually happening every day—‘ Damaged Goods, which will be presented to-night at the Empire, has a message for every mother, every father, every son, and every daughter of the nation. Based on the famous French play of the same name by Eugene Bricux and adapted for the modem screen by Upton Sinclair, 1 Damaged Goods ’ dares to throw the searchlight of truth on to-day’s greatest menace to health and happiness. At the same time it cannot be stressed too strongly or too often that here is no mere health lecture, but a stirring drama of this modern age—the story of five people whose whole future was threatened by a youthful indiscretion on the part of one on the eve of his marriage to a second of the group. Some may contend that the picture is somewhat daring, but let us remember that it is based on actual fact and that the truth sometimes hurts.
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Evening Star, Issue 23620, 5 July 1940, Page 12
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180EMPIRE Evening Star, Issue 23620, 5 July 1940, Page 12
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