Dwain Esper - Sex Madness (1938)

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A terribly bad movie featuring bad writing, bad acting and an assortment of vices and sexually transmitted diseaseases.

PLOT SYNOPSIS
Of rather mysterious origins, this exploitation melodrama features Millicent Hamilton (Vivian McGill), a small-town beauty queen who gets infected with syphilis while trying to obtain a career in Big City show business. Reduced to working in a burlesque show, Millicent is told by Dr. Harris (Allan Tower) that her condition is curable but that she must abstain from sexual contact with hometown boyfriend Wendel Hope, at least for the foreseeable future. (AllMovieGuide)

REVIEW
Sex Madness is by far and away the most obscure and cheapest-looking of the "Madness Trilogy," which also includes the much better known Reefer Madness and Cocaine Fiends. Yet it is typical exploitation melodrama harking back to the reformist age of the early 1910s. But unlike most films of the genre, Sex Madness spreads its net rather wide and in addition to the topic of venereal disease also discusses the general ill effects of casual sex and lesbianism. The former is shown via the standard "wild party" scene while the latter is merely hinted at in a couple of sequences depicting two stenographers, one a mannish type, the other a more traditional starlet, who are encouraged to explore their "forbidden" desires by attending a rather tame burlesque show. Sex Madness, like most exploitation films, also includes cautionary documentary footage from the World War I era, in this case a parade of syphilis-infected patients (a so-called "square-up" reel), and several completely unrelated variety performances. At one point in the story, the heroine wears a Spanish mantilla for no apparent reason other than to match footage from a hacienda festival "lifted" intact from some Grade-Z Western. (AllMovieGuide)