Human Wreckage (1923)
1h 20m
Running Time
June 17, 1923Release Date
Plot.
An attorney's wife is determined to fight the evils of addictive substances.
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Cast & Crew.

Dorothy Davenport
Ethel MacFarland / Writer / Producer / Director

James Kirkwood
Alan MacFarland

Bessie Love
Mary Finnegan

George Hackathorne
Jimmy Brown

Claire McDowell
Mrs. Brown

Robert McKim
Dr. Hillman

Harry Northrup
Steve Stone

Victory Bateman
Mother Finnegan

Eric Mayne
Dr. Blake

Otto Hoffman
Harris

Philip Sleeman
Dunn

Lucille Ricksen
Ginger

John Griffith Wray
Director

Will Lambert
Story

Henry Sharp
Director of Photography

C. Gardner Sullivan
Writer

J. Frank Cork
Music Arranger
Media.

Details.
Release DateJune 17, 1923
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 20m
Content RatingNR
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
opium
drug addiction
cannabis
black and white
silent film
Wiki.
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, with a premiere on June 17, 1923. 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.