Remembrance Wall

Title: Human Wreakage

Date: 1923

Distributor: Thomas H. Ince Corp.

Director: John Griffith Wray

Cast: Mrs. Wallace Reid (Dorothy Davenport), James Kirkwood, Bessie Love, George Hackathorne, Claire McDowell, Robert McKim, Harry Northrup, Victory Bateman, Eric Mayne, Otto Hoffman, Philip Sleeman, George Clark, Lucille Ricksen, George E. Cryer Mayor of Los Angeles), Dr. R.B. von Kleinsmid (President of the University of Southern California), Benjamin Bledsoe (U.S. Judge, 12th Federal District), Louis D. Oaks (Chief of Police, Los Angeles), Martha Nelson McCan (Los Angeles Parks Commissioner), Mrs. Chester Ashley , John P. Carter (former U.S. Internal Revenue Collector), Mrs. Charles F. Gray (Parent Teachers Assn.), Dr. L.M. Powers (Health Commissioner, Los Angeles), Brig. C.R. Boyd (Salvation Army).

Summary: An attorney suffers a nervous breakdown and becomes addicted to morphine. He cannot give up the drug until he sees his wife take up the habit because she is no longer able to cope with his addiction.

Notes: Mrs. Wallace Reid made this film in response to the drug overdose death of her husband, matinee idol Wallace Reid, who died the year before.