Remorse, a Story of the Red Plague is a 1917 Australian silent film about a naive country boy who visits the big city and contracts syphilis.
[2] Jack Rundle (Cyril Mackay) works on a station and falls in love with his father's ward, Nellie Fallon (Mabel Dyson).
When he goes to the city on business he falls into bad company, contracts syphilis and returns home to find himself an outcast.
But the South Australian censor passed it because they regarded it as having a moral message, although children under sixteen were not admitted.
[5][6] The film was originally banned in New South Wales by the censor but this was overturned on appeal.