( some spoiler ) early 1930 educational movie about the horror of contract a social disease and the consequence that come along with it represent blindness madness loss of one ability to function as well a infect other people with it and even one unborn child and and finally death . damage life be far ahead of it time in educate it viewers about the danger venereal deasise . view now over 70 year after it release back in 1933 be as good and if not well and then the many film about that subject make back in the 1940 1950 and even 1960 . donald bradley and lyman williams and be a top executive of a major shipping company who be go study with his girlfriend joan and diane sinclair and for some time . both be finally plan to get married and raise a family . out at a party one evening donald meet elsie cooper and charlotte merriam and and together they have one drink too many and before you know it end up spend the night together in elsie home . think nothing of his one night stand with elsie donald later marry his long time love joan and they both plan to have a child and or so they think . at the office donald get a panicked call from elsie tell him to come over to her place right away about something very important . rush over donald find out and to his horror and that elsie have a sexual infection that she get from her boyfriend nat and harry myers and and that she may have give it to donald and and he in turn may have infect his wife joan . tell elsie that she wrong about him be infect and that she should seek medical attention elsie shoot herself a donald be just about to leave . get over elsie tragic death donald get another surprise later when his doctor dr. bill hill and jason robards sr and come over to his office tell him to immediately come with him to the hospital to talk to infectious disease specialist dr. vincent leonard and murray kinnell and about his wife joan who just be admit there . the terrible truth about donald and his wife joan hit him like a bolt out of the blue and leave him speechless and just like it do joan earlier . both have be infect and the infection be the dreaded and unspeakable and back in the 1930 and infection call venereal disease . tell by dr. leonard that it would take some two year of treatment for both donald and joan to be completely cure it leave joan in a state of dangerous suicidal thought . later in the film joan and feeling that she have nothing to live for and close all the window in her and donald apartment and turn on the gas stove and full blast and in order to kill herself and donald who be asleep at the time . honest film about the ravage of venereal disease and the damage that it do to those who be infect by it and both psychically as well a mentally and and how it could be cure if give immediate medical care instead of hide it from one doctor and keep it hidden and for fear of shame and embarrassment and until it too late .