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Reefer Madness ()

Tell Your Children (original title)
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Cautionary tale that features a fictionalized take on marijuana use. A trio of drug dealers lead innocent teenagers to become addicted to "reefer" cigarettes by holding wild parties with jazz music.
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Mary
Kenneth Craig ...
Bill
Lillian Miles ...
Blanche
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Ralph
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Mae
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Jack
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Jimmy (as Warren McCullom)
Patricia Royale ...
Agnes (as Pat Royale)
Joseph Forte ...
Dr. Carroll (as Josef Forte)
Harry Harvey Jr. ...
Junior
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Pete Daley - Dope Pusher (uncredited)
James Ard ...
Officer Chuckman (uncredited)
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Juror (uncredited)
Nora Bush ...
Juror (uncredited)
Jane Crowley ...
Parent (uncredited)
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Joe - Bartender (uncredited)
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Juror (uncredited)
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Juror (uncredited)
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Mr. Wayne - Federal Bureau Investigator (uncredited)
Kay Garrett ...
Parent (uncredited)
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Bill's Lawyer (uncredited)
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Judge (uncredited)
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Mrs. Lane (uncredited)
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The Boss (uncredited)
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Henry Harper (uncredited)
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Jury Foreman (uncredited)
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Prosecuting Attorney (uncredited)
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Mrs. Harper (uncredited)
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Blanche's Lawyer (uncredited)
Eleanore Vogel ...
Parent (uncredited)
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Pete Daley (uncredited)
Ted Wray ...
Hot Fingers (uncredited)

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Louis J. Gasnier ... (as Louis Gasnier)

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Lawrence Meade ... (original story)
 
Arthur Hoerl ... (screenplay)
 
Paul Franklin ... (additional dialogue)

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Samuel Diege ... associate producer (as Sam Diege)
Dwain Esper ... producer (uncredited) (reissue)
George A. Hirliman ... producer

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Abe Meyer

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Jack Greenhalgh ... (uncredited)

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Carl Pierson

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Robert Priestley

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Ray Nazarro ... assistant director (as Ray Nazzaro)

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Louis Diage ... properties (as Louis Diege)

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Hans Weeren ... sound recorder

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Jack Greenhalgh ... chief cameraman

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Abe Meyer ... musical director
Hugo Riesenfeld ... composer: stock music (uncredited)
Heinz Roemheld ... composer: stock music (uncredited)
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Film that relates the story, as told by high-school principal Dr. Carroll to parents at a PTA meeting, of the scourge of marijuana. The tale revolves around Mae and Jack, accomplices in the distribution of marijuana, who manage to entice the local high-school kids to come to Mae's apartment to smoke reefer. The lives of all who are involved with this menace are inevitably shattered. One man becomes so addicted to the killer weed that the guilt over framing a teen for murder causes a judge to order him to be committed for life to a mental hospital. Dr. Carroll closes by advising us to not incur the same tragedy. Written by Rick Gregory

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Taglines SEE youthful marijuana victims - what actually happens! See more »
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Also Known As
  • The Burning Question (United States)
  • Dope Addict (United States)
  • Doped Youth (United States)
  • Love Madness (United States)
  • Reefer Madness (United States, English title)
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Trivia Inspired by the case of Victor Licata, who killed his father, mother, two brothers, and a sister with an ax in Tampa, FL, on 10/16/33, allegedly while under the influence of marijuana. Declared unfit to stand trial for reasons of insanity, subsequent psychiatric examination at the Florida State Mental Hospital determined that Licata suffered from schizophrenia with homicidal tendencies. The Licata case was used to propagandize the passage of the federal Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 that effectively outlawed legal sales of the "demon weed". See more »
Goofs When the gun is fired, it is pointed towards the floor, too low for a bullet to strike Mary in the back. See more »
Movie Connections Edited into Reefer Madness II: The True Story (1985). See more »
Crazy Credits FOREWORD: The motion picture you are about to witness may startle you. It would not have been possible, otherwise, to sufficiently emphasize the frightful toll of the new drug menace which is destroying the youth of America in alarmingly-increasing numbers. Marihuana is that drug - a violent narcotic - an unspeakable scourge - The Real Public Enemy Number One! Its first effect is sudden, violent, uncontrollable laughter; then come dangerous hallucinations - space expands - time slows down, almost stands still ....fixed ideas come next, conjuring up monstrous extravagances - followed by emotional disturbances, the total inability to direct thoughts, the loss of all power to resist physical emotions... leading finally to acts of shocking violence... ending often in incurable insanity. In picturing its soul-destroying effects no attempt was made to equivocate. The scenes and incidents, while fictionized for the purposes of this story, are based upon actual research into the results of Marihuana addiction. If their stark reality will make you think, will make you aware that something must be done to wipe out this ghastly menace, then the picture will not have failed in its purpose.... Because the dread Marihuana may be reaching forth next for your son or daughter....or yours....or YOURS! See more »
Quotes Mr. Wayne - Federal Bureau Investigator: Here is an example: A 16 year old lad apprehended in the act of staging a holdup - 16 years old and a marijuana addict. Here is a most tragic case.
Dr. Carroll: Yes. I remember. Just a young boy... under the influence of the drug... he killed his entire family with an axe.
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