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Sex Madness
USA 1938
produced by Dwain Esper for Cinema Service
directed by Dwain Esper
starring Vivian McGill, Rose Tapley, Al Rigali, Mark Daniel (as Stanley Barton), Linda Lee Hill, Ruth Edell, Charles Olcott, Ed Redding, Pat Lawrence, Allen Tower, Richard Bengali, W.Blake, Frank Howsen, Allan Lee, Jean Temple, Albert Patterson, Miriam Bilavsky, Natalie Donet, Polly Bestor, Joseph Kramer, Harry Antrim, Douncey Taylor
written by Joseph Seiden, Vincent Valentini
review by Mike Haberfelner
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A syphillis scare film, disguised as the story of two burlesque
dancers: There is sweet and innocent Millicent (Vivian McGill), who left
her small town home and her sweetheart Wendell (Mark Daniels) to become a
famous actress in the big city, but once in the city she falls for the
wrong agent, who needs her more for her looks, and before you know it, he
has invited her to a party where she gets a little drunk, has sex with one
of the guests, and bang, syphillis.
Her dreams about returning home and marrying her sweetheart are
smashed, until she meets Doctor Harris (Allen Tower), who gives her
treatment and suggests she returns home and continues treatment with a
local doctor - but warns her to fall for a quack.
Before long, Millicent thinks herself cured, marries Wendell and has a
baby - when the doctor she went to is revealed to be a quack, and
immediately the baby dies and Wendell goes blind ... poor Millicent
Meanwhile, promiscuous Sheila (Linda Lee Hill) has also contracted
syphillis, but went to the right doctor who cured her and now she is able
to marry her sweetheart.
The film is interspersed by the preaching of crusaders against
syphillis, including one whose son has actually contracted the disease ...
Naive, blunt and utterly sex- and syphillis-scare film, not without its
moments of unintentional hilarity, but in all one of the duller films of
the genre as it tries way too hard to hammer its point home - which is
amusing at first but rather annoying after about half the film.
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