Marihuana

According to Harley Wood's daughter Jan Tache, this film was the one regret her mother had of her career in films.

Several years pass between Burma giving up her baby and kidnapping her sister's child, as said child is now 6 or 7 years old. If the film is set in present day (1936), the kids in the earlier scenes should be drinking at a speakeasy, not a bar, as prohibition (which ended in 1933) would still have been in effect. It's especially unlikely that the bar/speakeasy would have a sign advertising 5 cent beer.

FOREWORD: For centuries the world has been aware of the narcotic menace. We have complacently watched Asiatic countries attempt to rid themselves of DRUGS CURSE, and attributed their failure to lack of education. We consider ourselves enlightened, and think that never could we succumb to such a fate. But - did you know that - the use of Marihuana is steadily increasing among the youth of this country? Did you know that - the youthful criminal is our greatest problem today? And that - Marihuana gives the user false courage, and destroys conscience, thereby making crime alluring, smart? That is the price we are paying for our lack of interest in the narcotic situation. This story is drawn from an actual case history on file in the police records of one of our large cities. Note: MARIHUANA, Hashish of the Orient, is commonly distributed as a doped cigarette. Its most terrifying effect is that it fires the user to extreme cruelty and license.

When the film was released in Chicago, several cuts were ordered. They included:

• a. A male character concealing cocaine in his shoe.
• b. Shots of Joanne preparing to go swimming.
• c. All shots of the women undressing and then running about on the beach in the nude and being chased by their boyfriends.
• d. A portion of dialogue: "Just a sweet little love child."
• Exhibitors were also told to trim a close-up shot of Burma Roberts toking up for the first time .

Edited into Sleazemania! (1985)