Marihuana (film)
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Directed by | Dwain Esper |
Produced by | Dwain Esper Hildegarde Stadie (uncredited) |
Written by | Hildegarde Stadie |
Starring | Harley Wood Hugh McArthur Pat Carlyle Paul Ellis Dorothy Dehn Richard Erskine Juanita Fletcher Hal Taggart Gloria Browne |
Cinematography | Roland Price |
Editing by | Carl Himm |
Distributed by | Roadshow Attractions Inc. |
Release date(s) | May, 1936 |
Running time | 57 min |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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- for the 1950 Argentine film see Marihuana (1950 film)
Marihuana is a 1936 exploitation film directed by Dwain Esper, and written by Esper's wife, Hildegarde Stadie.
[edit] Plot
The anti-drug propaganda tells the story of a good girl named Burma who goes to a party, smokes marijuana, and winds up going skinny-dipping with her girl friends. When one of the girls drowns, the dope pushers come up with a plan to hide the body. A turn of events leads up to Burma being pregnant and unmarried. She is forced to give the child up for adoption and become a drug dealer. In the film's "twist" ending, Burma hatches a plan to kidnap her sister's adopted daughter. As it turns out, the child is, in fact, her own.
[edit] Trivia
The motion picture is credited among a list of notable cult films for being included in a past public film showing at the annual Mid atlantic nostalgia convention in Aberdeen, Maryland.