Human Wreckage is a 1923 American independent silent drama[1] propaganda film[2] that starred Dorothy Davenport and featured James Kirkwood, Sr., Bessie Love, and Lucille Ricksen.

[5] The film portrayed the dangers of drug addiction and was shown across the country by Davenport herself, billed as Mrs. Wallace Reid, in an early example of what would later be called a roadshow engagement.

Ethel McFarland (Davenport) presents her attorney husband, Alan (Kirkwood), with the case of a dope addict named Jimmy Brown (Hackathorne).

When he discovers that his passenger is the leader of the dope ring, he resolves to aid the war on narcotics by crashing the vehicle head-on into an oncoming train, killing them both.

Wallace Reid died on January 18, 1923, during the first year of existence of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, which was led by Will H. Hays and which set standards for films to be approved for showing in theaters.