Marihuana (1936)
1936 · Feature film · 57 min · dir. Dwain Esper
Weed with roots in hell!
- exploitation film
- satanic film
Synopsis
A young girl named Burma attends a beach party with her boyfriend and after she smokes marijuana with a bunch of other girls, she gets pregnant and another girl drowns while skinny dipping in the ocean. Burma and her boyfriend go to work for the pusher in order to make money so they can get married. However, during a drug deal her boyfriend is killed leaving Burma to fend for herself. Burma then becomes a major narcotics pusher in her own right after giving up her baby for adoption.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Director
- Dwain Esper
- Writer
- Hildegarde Stadie
- Cinematography
- Roland Price
- Studio
- Roadshow Attractions
- Released
- 1936-05-08
- Running time
- 57 minutes
Cast & crew
Dwain Esper Director
Barry Norton
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · My, what "helpful" revues from a couple of jerks. · katpooh9 · 2009-01-29
First the description of this film was so smug (wink, wink) *heh, heh, snort, snort, ain't this film hilarious*, and then the reviewer obviously thinks he's clever. Clever like a jack ass. In the 1970's I watched as my older sister almost killed herself by starting on "harmless" marijuana. It dulled her brain which allowed her to kick her common sense out the door. She started taking more kinds of drugs, got pregnant by one guy, visited an emergency room because of some crap another guy gave her, then she ran away from home and it was years before we heard from her again. She was in her late 3
★★★ · well made for its time, wildly presumtive · sleeper414 · 2009-10-27
this movie wasnt the laugh riot that i expected, but did serve me with a few chuckles. by 1936 standards, this film was well directed acted and shot.once again, not nearly as stupid as i expected. if your a stoner, you'll be entertained.... essentially this is a drama about a life of crime with drugs as a sub plot to propell the subject along. it seems to me it was "pulped" by having the title to sell more tickets. -------------------- to the person bugging about his sister and the jerk reviewers...get a life. no one put a gun to your sisters head and made her make the decisions she made. howe
