Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

DAMAGED GOODS is a hilarious moralistic story about the risks of catching venereal disease from having easy sex. Made in 1961 and shown in schools in the USA, this is tame stuff indeed in which sex isn't shown or even hinted at; instead it's all about inference and implication. The main character is a promising young athlete whose best intentions are put to the test when he ill-advisedly sleeps with a prostitute after a hectic night out.What follows is an amusingly dramatic and portentous story in which the spread of venereal disease is highlighted by the central love triangle. Jim, the lead, is infected, as is his easy bit-on-the-side, played by the scene-stealing Dolores Faith. Jim's chaste and steady girlfriend, with whom he's shared nothing more than a kiss, is safe. There's a little of the sensation film about this, and at the climax it turns into a straight public information film, with an official relying information straight to the camera and some scary real-life facts and, yes, images.

Clean-cut high school track star Jim Radman (amiable Mory Schoolhouse) and his equally wholesome girlfriend Kathy Durham (an appealing portrayal by the pretty Charlotte Stewart) are planning on getting married following graduation from school. However, things go awry after Jim goes out for a night on the town with his male buddies and contracts syphilis from a hooker at a bar.Writer/director H. Haile Chalice relates the engrossing story at a steady pace, maintains a sincere tone throughout, refreshingly avoids being too preachy or judgmental considering the subject matter, nicely captures the strained relationship between Judy and her stern parents, and further nails the guilt and shame one would feel about getting a venereal disease in the early 1960's. The two leads are quite likable and attractive. Michael Bell contributes a lively and engaging performance as Jim's hearty hipster pal Monk Monahan. Best of all, stunning brunette knockout Dolores Faith really sinks her teeth into her juicy role as bold'n'brash bad girl Kathy Durham, who smokes, steals stuff (including snatching Jim from under Judy's nose!), and generally behaves like a blithely wicked stuck-up bitch. The lengthy lecture about STDs complete with gruesome accompanying visuals rates as a real disgusting doozy. The fairly polished cinematography by Vilis Lapenieks boasts a few nifty dissolves and superimpositions. Cool groovy theme by the Ventures, too. Worth a watch.

i love, love, love this movie. "something weird video" put out a great special edition DVD of it, and i recommend all pick it up.the film chronicles the lives of track star jim and his sweet, virginal girlfriend judy jackson. things are thrown into a tizzy, however, when new girl kathy (played wonderfully by dolores faith) falls for jim as well. they have fun one night, and hang out very late... (strangely, "night" in this movie takes place sometime in the afternoon) ...jealousy arises, and for some reason, jim sleeps with a prostitute at a dive bar. he gets syphilis, passes it on to kathy, but, luckily, not judy. after explaining to his track coach that he has a rash, the coach takes him to a doctor, and asks if there is "anything i can do to help." a short film about the horror of syphilis is thrown in for good measure, and jim marries judy. the end.i recently met charlotte stewart, who plays judy jackson, and had her sign a damaged goods poster. she was really nice, and more than willing to talk about the film.check it out!

I think I actually saw this film in Health when I was a high school freshman. It was a moralizing (or demoralizing!) polemic about loose girls, girls with "a reputation" and girls you could drive up to on the street and get to go for a ride with you, called "pick-ups" back then. Dire consequences would surely ensue from straying off the straight and narrow and indulging your urges. If that's the one, it is a very weird, strange, somber little film.