Damaged Lives

Damaged Lives
Directed byEdgar G. Ulmer
Written byEdgar G. Ulmer (screenplay)
Donald Davis (dialog)
Based onplay Les Avariés
by Eugène Brieux (uncredited)
Produced byJ. J. Allen (producer)
Maxwell Cohn (producer)
Nat Cohn (producer)
StarringSee below
CinematographyAllen G. Siegler
Edited byOtto Meyer
Production
company
Weldon Pictures Corporation
Distributed byWeldon Pictures (Columbia Pictures)
Release dates
  • 22 May 1933 (1933-05-22) (Toronto, Ontario)
  • 19 August 1933 (1933-08-19) (London, England)
  • 15 September 1933 (1933-09-15) (Boston, Massachusetts)
Running time
61 minutes
CountriesCanada
United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$18,000[1]

Damaged Lives is a 1933 Canadian/American pre-Code exploitation film directed by Edgar G. Ulmer.[2] The screenplay is based on the French play Les Avariés (1901) by Eugène Brieux.[3]

The film was shot at General Service Studios, Hollywood, California for the Canadian Social Health Council and premiered in Toronto, Ontario.[4]

Damaged Lives was initially released in Canada and a few cities in the United States but screenings were blocked by censors in most American towns. In 1937, the film was re-released as The Shocking Truth with a 29-minute supplementary lecture on VD added onto the end of the film to satisfy censors. Most current video releases do not include this extra material.[5]

  1. ^ Schaefer, Eric (1999). "Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!": A History of Exploitation Films, 1919–1959. Duke University Press. pp. 180, 419. ISBN 0-8223-2374-5.
  2. ^ Damaged Lives at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films.
  3. ^ Bogdanovich, Peter (1997) Who the Devil made it : conversations with Robert Aldrich, George Cukor, Allan Dwan, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Chuck Jones, Fritz Lang, Joseph H. Lewis, Sidney Lumet, Leo McCarey, Otto Preminger, Don Siegel, Josef von Sternberg, Frank Tashlin, Edgar G. Ulmer, Raoul Walsh in libraries (WorldCat catalog) (New York: Knopf) ISBN 978-0-3454-0457-2
  4. ^ Rist, Peter (2001). Guide to the Cinema(s) of Canada (Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press), p. 77. ISBN 0-313-29931-5.
  5. ^ Damaged Lives at AllMovie