Distant Drummer: A Movable Scene

★★★★ · Pass the Ban Deodrant and Accent Salt Please · Spuzz · 2013-07-19

Interesting film about drug use, narrated, yes, by Robert Mitchum (who, yes, got busted for marijuana usage back in the late 50's). This film doesn't really quite say drug use is bad. I mean it DOES, but it somewhat has a neutrality about it, glamorizing it even, making the narration quite curious, and wondering where they're going. At the end, the politicians and doctors come out though, saying drugs are bad for you. There's an english man who looks alarmingly like Michael Caine, so much so I was looking up on the internet to see if it is (it most likely isn't). Great shots of hippie life.…