Marihuana (I) (1936)

A young girl slowly becomes a dope pusher.

Director:

Dwain Esper

Writer:

Hildegarde Stadie (story)

Stars:

Harley Wood, Hugh McArthur, Pat Carlyle

Cast

Cast overview:
Harley Wood	...	Burma Roberts aka 'Blondie'
Hugh McArthur	...	Dick Collier
Pat Carlyle	...	Nickolas 'Nicki' Romero
Paul Ellis	...	Tony Santello
Dorothy Dehn	...	Elaine Roberts Stewart
Richard Erskine	...	Morgan Stewart
Juanita Fletcher	...	Mrs. Roberts (as Juanita Crosland)
Hal Taggart	...	Burma's Customer's Fiancée
Gloria Browne	...	Gloria, The Child (as Gloria Brown)

Storyline

A young girl named Burma attends a beach party with her boyfriend and after she smokes marijuana with a bunch of other girls, she gets pregnant and another girl drowns while skinny dipping in the ocean. Burma and her boyfriend go to work for the pusher in order to make money so they can get married. However, during a drug deal her boyfriend is killed leaving Burma to fend for herself. Burma then becomes a major narcotics pusher in her own right after giving up her baby for adoption.

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Plot Keywords:

party | drugs | skinny dipping | beach | marijuana | 

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Taglines:

Lust Crime Sorrow Hate Shame Despair

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Genres:

Crime | Drama

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

May 1936 (USA)

Also Known As:

Marihuana, the Devil's Weed

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Roadshow Attractions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

57 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The original trailer for the film included a shot of a girl's leg getting grabbed at the weenie roast, and a close-up of hands clutching for a row of needles. These shots do not appear in the final film.

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Goofs

The positions of Burma's hands when she is visiting the panicking female customer.

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Quotes

Teenaged boy: [pouring a drink] This is gonna be a slippery drink for sliding girls.

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Crazy Credits

Research with the help of Federal, State and Police Narcotic Officials

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Connections

Featured in Grass (1999)

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Soundtracks

"Poet and Peasant Overture"
Music by Franz von Suppé
Played when the girl reaches down and picks up the dog

User Reviews

The "giggle" weed strikes again!

Teenagers beware! It could happen to you!

Mix alcohol and the evil giggle weed and you could end up dead. Or even worse, you could become a hard-core drug pushing heroin addicted drug dealer!

So is the moral of the 1936 exploitation film "Marihuana". We even get to see a little bit of 1930's T&A!

Now what more could you ask for?? :)

I enjoyed watching Burma (Harlene Wood) go from happy go lucky teenager -to pregnant misfit- to "Blondie" the drug dealer, all in less than an hour!

A fun little film and certainly a time capsule of days long past! For fans of these types of movies, this film is a classic and a must see!