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Tell Your Children

PUBLIC ENEMY No. 1. WOMEN CRY FOR IT...MEN WILL DIE FOR IT!

1938 · 1h 6m · PG Crime, Drama
Directed by Louis J. Gasnier

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High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll 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 and Jimmy Lane and Mary's boyfriend, Bill, 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.

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46%
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Fresh

The original antimarijuana film (1936), offering the true inside story of the devil weed that drives men to savage lusts and women to unspeakable depravities, along with a little bit of dumb fun.

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Fresh

One of the most absurdly earnest exercises in paranoia you'll ever have the good fortune to see.

Time Out

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