Innocent Party (1959)

[Music] for [Music] [Music] [Music] time [Music] [Music] n [Music] thanks D ready to go now D you and Don aren't leaving are you it isn't play well I I think we better Mrs Turner but we had a wonderful time thank you so much that's the trouble with going steady with a girl like Betty Miss Turner mother always expects her home by 11: well you come back again will good night good night [Music] kind of quiet tonight [Music] uh-huh Don mhm you know what I never felt about anyone well for the way I feel about you gosh Betty I think you're wonderful too hey you better watch out we're getting on the wrong side of the road I better pull off the road for a few minutes I have to be home by a left remember uhhuh are you sure you have to be home right away why oh I guess not not for a while anyway [Music] [Music] oh [Music] ready let's go hope do okay [Music] hey D boy what's the matter looks like you got deep thoughts I just thinking about something Nikki that's all he thinking still dreaming about the little Queen over in the city say did uh did Betty find you a changed man hey you come off that right now listen Betty's not that kind of girl and you remember it okay okay just forget I mentioned it say Nikki yeah you know those girls in the city the other night yeah you think they might have had something you bet they did oh Oh you mean no I just forget about it but bu they're just a couple of good kids who want to have a little fun well I don't know Nikki something happened what do you mean something happened well I've got some sort of Sword down there oh oh well well don't worry about it it's probably just a pimple or something the same thing happened to me and it it it cleared up all by itself well maybe but I think I ought to go see our doctor just to be sure well suit yourself personally I just forget all about [Music] it well there they are take a look at this is it something bad Dr Carlton you know what it is well there's no doubt about what it is D those little Quirk screw things are the germs of syphilis sephus that's doctor I now take it easy it isn't the end of the world for you we can cure syphilis especially if we find it in the early stages such as yours are you sure it's syphilis doctor the dark field examination is proof enough we'll also run a blood test on you before you leave I don't know I don't know how I got it I haven't done anything done let's be straightforward about this I'm not here to make a moral judgment but you and I know that it was contracted through sexual intercourse with an infected person well well I I heard you could get something like this from oh from a toilet seat or something about as much chance is being hit by a medeor what am I going to tell my dad the best thing is to tell him the truth I'll talk to him if you want me to D there's some things you should know about this disease of yours now here we are this is the sore you have Don it's called a Shanker it is usually painless sometimes it looks like this and sometimes like this when one of these appears on or around your sexual organs you probably got what we call primary syphilis boy pretty awful looking well actually the appearance of a Shanker is rather fortunate sometimes the sword does not appear or so small that you wouldn't notice it it and when that happens the disease might go unnoticed for years what happens if you don't find it right away well the results can be tragic in many instances civilis can [ __ ] you blind you destroy your brain of course it may kill you eventually well you did say it could be cured though especially in an early case like mine yes in the stage you have we can knock out the Spyro and hurry spet what's that well that's the Quirk screw shaped thing that you saw in the microscope like this these germs enter the body when you have sexual intercourse they burrow into the skin usually causing a Shanker to appear where they entered they work their way into the bloodstream and the Shanker on the skin disappears now that happens to quite a few people who think they're all right after the sword clears up now done I'll have to have the names of the girls you've had sexual relations with and naturally this is confidential well there haven't exactly been dozens as a matter of fact I know exactly where I got it there was this one girl over in the city Barbara Meyers well now tell me everything you can about this girl Don you see the health department over there will want to contact her to see that she's examined and treated before she gives the disease to someone else I'm afraid I don't know her address matter of fact I'm not even sure that's her real name anybody else Don no sir just that one girl are you being honest with me Don I told you there was this one girl over in the city that's it now look here son I've admired your courage for coming in here and facing up to the facts but you get it through your head that you're dealing with a deadly disease not some common cold or a case of the chickenpox if you think you're doing some girl a favor by protecting her good name and reputation you're wrong you're terribly wrong I've said all there is to say there is no other girl all right if there's no other girl we'll leave it at that but before we do I want to show you something I come here I've showed you the symptoms of syphilis as they appear in the mail generally the Shanker appears on or around the external sex organs men and boys boys who contract civilis have a good chance of spotting it when the danger signal appears with a girl however it's not quite as easy you see a girl could develop a Shanker way up inside like this and never know that she had civilist of course if she's lucky it'll appear out in the open like this now we don't have to worry about this do we D you say there's no other girl who might have become infected by you even if a girl had it and didn't know it she'd find out wouldn't she I mean there'd be other signs yes yeah sometimes there are other signs in the secondary stage a few weeks or months after the primary shanky disappears she may develop a sore throat patches of her hair may come out or her skin may break out in a rash like this then again the symptoms of secondary syphilis may be so slight that they go unnoticed if she doesn't go to a doctor or if a doctor isn't looking for syphilis it may never be detected you see the secondary symptoms like the primary Shanker also will disappear even without treatment well you'd find it for sure when you had a blood test before you got married they' Discover it there now that would be a lovely wedding present for a girl to discover that she had syphilis a few days before the wedding and in some states people can get married even without a blood test but suppose she had undetected cilis active in the latent stages she might go for years thinking that she's all right then before she knows what's happening to her she goes insane or becomes a hopeless [ __ ] here's something else Don congenital syphilis look at this baby its mother infected it before it was born because she had syphilis and didn't get treated you say there is no other girl Don but if you're lying to protect a girl just consider what it might cost her but she might not even have it you can't take that risk only a doctor can tell you for sure she's a nice girl doctor I don't want her to have to go through all this if she doesn't have to all right done it's your decision but if you're the young man I think you are you'll bring that girl in to see me I have to think about it doctor I've got to have time to think about [Music] it she might not even have it only a doctor can tell you can't take that risk [Music] I may have given Betty syphilis [Music] syphilis she'll never know until it's too late she goes insane or becomes a hopeless [ __ ] [Music] oh [Music] now there's something I want to tell both of you now what's happened has passed you both have a disease and you will both have to be treated now you took a risk by doing something that Society condemns perhaps you didn't realize some of the penalties involved I didn't buy I know that you're blamed on but you should thank him for one thing which thing doctor shall I thank him for giving it to me for for adding me to his list of girls just what do I thank him for for God's sakes Betty I didn't mean to do this to you what is it doctor what do I thank Don for just be thankful he brought you in in the first place and be thankful he brought you before it was too late we've crun this thing in time we can take care of it you and Don are both going to be all right you may be right doctor but right now I'd rather be there I know but you're thinking only of this moment tomorrow you'd rather be cured oh [Music]