Human Wreckage: Difference between revisions

Browse history interactively ← Previous edit Next edit →Content deleted Content addedVisual WikitextInline

Revision as of 07:24, 27 May 2020 editSc2353 (talk \| contribs)Extended confirmed users304,900 edits removed Category:1920s lost films; added Category:1923 lost films using HotCat ← Previous edit		Revision as of 19:47, 25 August 2020 edit undoLugnuts (talk \| contribs)Extended confirmed users, Pending changes reviewers1,509,055 editsmNo edit summaryNext edit →
Line 1:		Line 1:
	{{short description\|1923 silent film by John Griffith Wray}}		{{short description\|1923 silent film by John Griffith Wray}}
	{{Use mdy dates\|date=~~September~~ ~~2014~~}}		{{Use mdy dates\|date=August 2020}}
	{{more citations needed\|date=February 2020}}		{{more citations needed\|date=February 2020}}
	{{Infobox film		{{Infobox film
Line 24:		Line 24:
	}}		}}

	'''''Human Wreckage''''' is a 1923 American independent ] drama<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/9851\|title=''Human Wreckage'' 1923)\|website=American Film Institute}}</ref> ]<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/v137311\|title=''Human Wreckage'' (1923)\|website=AllMovie\|first=Janiss\|last=Garza}}</ref> that starred ] and featured ], ], and ]. The film was co-produced by Davenport and ] and distributed by ]. No print of this film is known to exist today, and it is considered a ].<ref name="silentera">{{cite web\|url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/H/HumanWreckage1923.html\|title=Progressive Silent Film List: ''Human Wreckage''\|website=Silent Era\|last=Bennett\|first=Carl\|date=30 October 2011}}</ref>		'''''Human Wreckage''''' is a 1923 American independent ] drama<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/9851\|title=''Human Wreckage'' 1923)\|website=American Film Institute}}</ref> ]<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/v137311\|title=''Human Wreckage'' (1923)\|website=AllMovie\|first=Janiss\|last=Garza}}</ref> that starred ] and featured ], ], and ]. The film was co-produced by Davenport and ] and distributed by ]. No print of this film is known to exist today, and it is considered a ].<ref name="silentera">{{cite web\|url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/H/HumanWreckage1923.html\|title=Progressive Silent Film List: ''Human Wreckage''\|website=Silent Era\|last=Bennett\|first=Carl\|date=October 30, 2011}}</ref>

	Davenport's husband ] was addicted to ], which had been prescribed to him after an injury.<ref>{{cite book\|page= \|url=https://archive.org/details/hollywoodpioneer0000brow/\|title=Hollywood: The Pioneers\|last=Brownlow\|first=Kevin\|year=1979\|isbn=0-394-50851-3}}</ref> The film portrayed the dangers of ] and was shown across the country by Davenport herself, billed as Mrs. Wallace Reid, in an early example of what would later be called a ] engagement.		Davenport's husband ] was addicted to ], which had been prescribed to him after an injury.<ref>{{cite book\|page= \|url=https://archive.org/details/hollywoodpioneer0000brow/\|title=Hollywood: The Pioneers\|last=Brownlow\|first=Kevin\|year=1979\|isbn=0-394-50851-3}}</ref> The film portrayed the dangers of ] and was shown across the country by Davenport herself, billed as Mrs. Wallace Reid, in an early example of what would later be called a ] engagement.

Revision as of 19:47, 25 August 2020

1923 silent film by John Griffith Wray

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Human Wreckage" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (February 2020) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Human Wreckage
1923 lobby poster
Directed by	John Griffith Wray
Written by	C. Gardner Sullivan Dorothy Davenport (uncredited)
Story by	Will Lambert
Produced by	Dorothy Davenport Thomas Ince
Starring	Dorothy Davenport Bessie Love James Kirkwood, Sr.
Cinematography	Henry Sharp
Distributed by	Film Booking Offices of America
Release date	June 17, 1923 (1923-06-17) (U.S.)
Running time	80 minutes
Country	United States
Language	Silent (English intertitles)

Human Wreckage is a 1923 American independent silent drama propaganda film that starred Dorothy Davenport and featured James Kirkwood, Sr., Bessie Love, and Lucille Ricksen. The film was co-produced by Davenport and Thomas H. Ince and distributed by Film Booking Offices of America. No print of this film is known to exist today, and it is considered a lost film.

Davenport's husband Wallace Reid was addicted to morphine, which had been prescribed to him after an injury. The film portrayed the dangers of drug addiction and was shown across the country by Davenport herself, billed as Mrs. Wallace Reid, in an early example of what would later be called a roadshow engagement.

Plot

Ethel McFarland (Davenport) presents her attorney husband, Alan (Kirkwood), with the case of a dope addict named Jimmy Brown (Hackathorne). With the help of Alan's impassioned defense, Jimmy gets acquitted.

Alan feels the pressures of his job and is introduced to a doctor at his club. When he becomes addicted, he is blackmailed by his peddlers to represent their friends in court. Jimmy, now off the smack and a taxi driver, hears of these goings-on. When he discovers that his passenger is the leader of the dope ring, he resolves to aid the war on narcotics by crashing the vehicle head-on into an oncoming train, killing them both. Alan gets treated for his addiction and begins to fight the pushers in court, all the while pushing for stronger laws against addictive substances.

At the film's close, Davenport addresses the audience directly, imploring them to support her in her crusade to wipe out the menace of narcotics.

Cast

Dorothy Davenport as Ethel MacFarland (billed as Mrs. Wallace Reid)
James Kirkwood as Alan MacFarland
Bessie Love as Mary Finnegan
George Hackathorne as Jimmy Brown
Claire McDowell as Mrs. Brown
Robert McKim as Dr. Hillman
Harry Northrup as Steve Stone
Victory Bateman as Mother Finnegan
Eric Mayne as Dr. Blake
Otto Hoffman as Harris
Philip Sleeman as Dunn
George Clark as The Baby
Lucille Ricksen as Ginger
George E. Cryer as Mayor of Los Angeles
Doctor Rufus B. von KleinSmid as President of University of Southern California
Benjamin Bledsoe as U.S. Judge, 12th Federal District
Louis D. Oaks as a Los Angeles Chief of Police
Martha Nelson McCan as Los Angeles Parks Commissioner
Mrs. Chester Ashley as a civic leader
John P. Carter as a former Internal Revenue Service collector
Mrs. Charles F. Gray as a civic leader (Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associations)
Doctor L. M. Powers as Los Angeles Health Commissioner
Brigadier C. R. Boyd as a Salvation Army leader

Censorship

On January 14, 1923, Will H. Hays was appointed as president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America. Wallace Reid died just four days later, on January 18.

Although it took years for the so-called "Hays Code" to be finalized, the Code did set certain standards for movies from the very beginning, including a ban on any reference to drug use. Despite this, Davenport received a dispensation from Hays allowing her to produce Human Wreckage because of its anti-drug message.

The film was banned by the British Board of Film Censors in 1924.

References

"Human Wreckage 1923)". American Film Institute.
Garza, Janiss. "Human Wreckage (1923)". AllMovie.
^ Bennett, Carl (October 30, 2011). "Progressive Silent Film List: Human Wreckage". Silent Era.
Brownlow, Kevin (1979). Hollywood: The Pioneers. p. 117. ISBN 0-394-50851-3.
Mahar, Karen Ward (2006). Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-8018-8436-8.

External links

v t e Dorothy Davenport
Directing	The Red Kimono (1925) Linda (1929) Sucker Money (1933) The Road to Ruin (1934) The Woman Condemned (1934)
Writing	Human Wreckage (1923) The Racing Strain (1932) The Road to Ruin (1934) Honeymoon Limited (1935) Women Must Dress (1935) Prison Break (1938) Drums of the Desert (1940) Haunted House (1940) On the Spot (1940) The Old Swimmin' Hole (1940) Tomboy (1940) Redhead (1941) Curley (1947) The Hal Roach Comedy Carnival (1947) Who Killed Doc Robbin? (1948) Impact (1949) Rhubarb (1951) Francis Joins the WACS (1954) Footsteps in the Fog (1955) Impact (1956) Operation Snowball (1958)
Producing	Human Wreckage (1923) Broken Laws (1924) The Red Kimono (1925) The Earth Woman (1926) Linda (1929) Redhead (1934) Honeymoon Limited (1935) Women Must Dress (1935) The House of a Thousand Candles (1936) A Bride for Henry (1937) Paradise Isle (1937) Rose of the Rio Grande (1938)

Categories:

Revision as of 07:24, 27 May 2020 editSc2353 (talk \| contribs)Extended confirmed users304,900 edits removed Category:1920s lost films; added Category:1923 lost films using HotCat ← Previous edit		Revision as of 19:47, 25 August 2020 edit undoLugnuts (talk \| contribs)Extended confirmed users, Pending changes reviewers1,509,055 editsmNo edit summaryNext edit →
Line 1:		Line 1:
	{{short description\|1923 silent film by John Griffith Wray}}		{{short description\|1923 silent film by John Griffith Wray}}
	{{Use mdy dates\|date=~~September~~ ~~2014~~}}		{{Use mdy dates\|date=August 2020}}
	{{more citations needed\|date=February 2020}}		{{more citations needed\|date=February 2020}}
	{{Infobox film		{{Infobox film
Line 24:		Line 24:
	}}		}}

	'''''Human Wreckage''''' is a 1923 American independent ] drama<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/9851\|title=''Human Wreckage'' 1923)\|website=American Film Institute}}</ref> ]<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/v137311\|title=''Human Wreckage'' (1923)\|website=AllMovie\|first=Janiss\|last=Garza}}</ref> that starred ] and featured ], ], and ]. The film was co-produced by Davenport and ] and distributed by ]. No print of this film is known to exist today, and it is considered a ].<ref name="silentera">{{cite web\|url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/H/HumanWreckage1923.html\|title=Progressive Silent Film List: ''Human Wreckage''\|website=Silent Era\|last=Bennett\|first=Carl\|date=30 October 2011}}</ref>		'''''Human Wreckage''''' is a 1923 American independent ] drama<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/9851\|title=''Human Wreckage'' 1923)\|website=American Film Institute}}</ref> ]<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/v137311\|title=''Human Wreckage'' (1923)\|website=AllMovie\|first=Janiss\|last=Garza}}</ref> that starred ] and featured ], ], and ]. The film was co-produced by Davenport and ] and distributed by ]. No print of this film is known to exist today, and it is considered a ].<ref name="silentera">{{cite web\|url=http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/H/HumanWreckage1923.html\|title=Progressive Silent Film List: ''Human Wreckage''\|website=Silent Era\|last=Bennett\|first=Carl\|date=October 30, 2011}}</ref>

	Davenport's husband ] was addicted to ], which had been prescribed to him after an injury.<ref>{{cite book\|page= \|url=https://archive.org/details/hollywoodpioneer0000brow/\|title=Hollywood: The Pioneers\|last=Brownlow\|first=Kevin\|year=1979\|isbn=0-394-50851-3}}</ref> The film portrayed the dangers of ] and was shown across the country by Davenport herself, billed as Mrs. Wallace Reid, in an early example of what would later be called a ] engagement.		Davenport's husband ] was addicted to ], which had been prescribed to him after an injury.<ref>{{cite book\|page= \|url=https://archive.org/details/hollywoodpioneer0000brow/\|title=Hollywood: The Pioneers\|last=Brownlow\|first=Kevin\|year=1979\|isbn=0-394-50851-3}}</ref> The film portrayed the dangers of ] and was shown across the country by Davenport herself, billed as Mrs. Wallace Reid, in an early example of what would later be called a ] engagement.

Misplaced Pages