DAMAGED LIVES / DAMAGED GOODS BLU-RAY

Kino Classics + Something Weird Present Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture Volume 13 - DAMAGED LIVES / DAMAGED GOODS!

      Stifled! Shushed! Suppressed! Eugene Brieux's play Les Avaries endeavored to bring syphilis out of the shadows and erase the stigma surrounding it. Later adapted by Upton Sinclair into the novel Damaged Goods, the story became the backbone of countless sex hygiene films, in which a young couple's happiness is overshadowed by the specter of disease. Made just before his influential film The Black Cat, Edgar G. Ulmer's unauthorized rendition of the story Damaged Lives (1933) is grimly poetic, and deserves a place among the director's finest work. Often overlooked in the exploitation cycle, Damaged Goods (1937) demonstrates how unexpectedly compelling these disreputable little films could be.

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Audio Commentary for Damaged Lives by Eric Schaefer, author of Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!: A History of Exploitation Films
• Audio Commentary for Damaged Goods by Felicia Feaster, author of Forbidden Fruit: he Golden Age of Exploitation Film
• Four Short Films directed by Edgar G. Ulmer for the National Tuberculosis Association (1939-40) - Let My People Live, Cloud in the Sky, Goodbye, Mr. Germ, They Do Come Back
• Two sex hygiene lecture reels