| 词条 | Human Wreckage |
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| name = Human Wreckage | image = Human Wreckage.jpg | image_size = | caption = 1923 lobby poster | director = John Griffith Wray | writer = C. Gardner Sullivan Dorothy Davenport (uncredited) | story = Will Lambert | producer = Dorothy Davenport Thomas Ince | starring = Dorothy Davenport Bessie Love James Kirkwood, Sr. | music = | cinematography = Henry Sharp | editing = | distributor = Film Booking Offices of America | released = {{Film date|1923|06|17|U.S.}} | runtime = 80 minutes | country = United States | language = Silent (English intertitles) | budget = | gross = }}Human Wreckage is a 1923 American independent silent drama film that starred Dorothy Davenport. The film was produced by Davenport and Thomas H. Ince. No print of this film is known to exist today, and it is considered a lost film.[1] Cast
PlotEthel 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, the film's producer, Dorothy Davenport, who plays Ethel, and who was Wallace Reid's wife, addresses the audience directly, imploring them to support her in her crusade to wipe out the menace of narcotics. Production backgroundThe film, featuring James Kirkwood, Sr., Bessie Love, and Lucille Ricksen, 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. The film was co-produced with Thomas Ince and distributed by Film Booking Offices of America. 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.[2] The film was banned by the British Board of Film Censors in 1924.[1] See also
References1. ^1 Progressive Silent Film List: Human Wreckage at silentera.com 2. ^{{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=VoRog0VP0J0C | first = Karen Ward | last = Mahar | title = Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood | location= Baltimore | publisher = Johns Hopkins University Press | year = 2006 | isbn = 978-0-8018-8436-8 | page = 150 }} External links{{Commons category|Human Wreckage}}
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