REEFER MADNESS
starring Dave O'Brien and Dorothy Short
 
Drama/Exploitation
UPC: 056775048990
 
Reefer Madness is a 1936 American
propaganda film about drugs, revolving around the melodramatic events that ensue when high school students are lured by pushers to try marijuana. Originally financed by a church group under the title Tell Your Children, the film was intended to be shown to parents as a morality tale attempting to teach them about the dangers of cannabis use. The film was directed by Louis J. Gasnier and featured a cast of mainly little-known actors.
 
High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll (Josef Forte) relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens. In his story, a drug supplier entices several restless teens, including sister and brother Mary (Dorothy Short) and Jimmy Lane (Warren McCollum) and Mary's boyfriend, Bill (Kenneth Craig), into frequenting a "reefer" house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives and leads to a terrible crime.
 
A very good used DVD movie in a case with mild wear.