Directed by:
Louis J. GasnierScreenplay:
Arthur HoerlCinematography:
Jack GreenhalghCast:
Dorothy Short, Kenneth Craig, Dave O'Brien, Carleton Young, Joseph Forte, Harry Harvey Jr., Richard Alexander, Lester Dorr, Edward Earle, Frank LaRue (more)VOD (2)
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This unintentionally hilarious Depression Era propaganda film has become a cult classic for its outrageous claims about the effects of marijuana, as told by a concerned school principal (Joseph Forte) to a PTA meeting. Dorothy Short, David O'Brien and Kenneth Craig costar in this film also known as "Tell Your Children." (Showtime)
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Frankenstein and Count Dracula were buried, as the biggest bogeyman of the mid-1930s was marijuana! Even the wonderfully over-the-top prologue about "the real public enemy number one" is just a precursor to some absolutely ridiculous propaganda with all sorts of made-up ideas about how grass will turn you into murderous maniacs. The movie is terrible, yet its amateurish production values are downright amusing and I recommend seeing it. Anyway, I just think this movie encouraged more adolescents to smoke weed than it discouraged.
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I don't really know what the movie was about, because the simultaneous dub was dialed way to the right in everything this time. If the role of this film was to at least motivate the dub, it deserves five stars. The prosecutor's strident monologue gradually segueing into a defense of the cuteness of the Malaysian fruit but would normally earn it some sort of Best Screenplay nomination.
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