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Drug Addiction (1951)

ALL 01/01/1951 (en) Documentary 20 Min
  • Release
    01/01/1951
  • Production
    Encyclopædia Britannica Films
  • Rotten tomato
    40%
  • Original title
    Drug Addiction
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

Marty, a "good boy," experiments with marijuana and experiences "profound mental and emotional disturbances." As in all anti-drug films of this vintage, marijuana leads straight to "H," and Marty's decline continues until he is busted, rehabbed and reformed. Drug Addiction's stilted view of the urban drug culture and unrealistic portrayals of stoned slackers make it entertaining viewing today. It belongs to that little-known "second wave" of anti-drug films, the postwar scare stories about middle-class kids overcome by junkiedom. What this wave of films reveals is that drugs were an issue for white adolescents long before the psychedelic Sixties, and that the official response to the threat expressed a general, not specifically targeted paranoia.

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  1. John Galvarro

    Marty Malone

  2. James Brill

    Narrator

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Drug Addiction (1951) 20 Min

ALL 01/01/1951 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 01/01/1951
  • Production
    Encyclopædia Britannica Films
  • Original title Drug Addiction
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

Marty, a "good boy," experiments with marijuana and experiences "profound mental and emotional disturbances." As in all anti-drug films of this vintage, marijuana leads straight to "H," and Marty's decline continues until he is busted, rehabbed and reformed. Drug Addiction's stilted view of the urban drug culture and unrealistic portrayals of stoned slackers make it entertaining viewing today. It belongs to that little-known "second wave" of anti-drug films, the postwar scare stories about middle-class kids overcome by junkiedom. What this wave of films reveals is that drugs were an issue for white adolescents long before the psychedelic Sixties, and that the official response to the threat expressed a general, not specifically targeted paranoia.

  1. Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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