Sadly, two stars of this film died of suicide, and both at relatively young ages. Mory Schoolhouse, who played protagonist Jim, died in Las Vegas in 1967. Dolores Faith, who played bad girl Kathy, died in Miami, Florida in 1990. Faith and Schoolhouse are the first two actors listed in the film's credits, in that order.
This is one of several films that can be traced back to Eugene Brieux's play Les Avariés (translation: "The Damaged") and Upton Sinclair's novelization of that play entitled "Damaged Goods." Some of the common plot elements among these films are a protagonist who is engaged to be married and who contracts a venereal disease from a prostitute shortly before his wedding (often during a night of debauchery urged on by his work colleagues or his closest friends), the protagonist confiding in his best friend about the disease and then discussing it with a physician, attempts to medically treat the disease, a sexual affair between the protagonist and his best friend's wife or girlfriend, and the impacts of all of this on the protagonist's engagement and marriage. This film even used the same name as the original novelization (Damaged Goods), although the plot entirely skips the second half of the original story and changes it to an abrupt, happy ending.