David O'Brien, Dorothy Short, Kenneth Craig

Cautionary tale features a fictionalized and highly exaggerated take on the use of marijuana. A trio of drug dealers lead innocent teenagers to become addicted to "reefer" cigarettes by holding wild p...( read more  read more... )arties with jazz music.

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PG, 67 min.

Directed by: Louis J. Gasnier

Release Date: January 1, 1936

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DVD Release Date: July 30, 2002

 

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  • September 30, 2009
    It?s just an old propaganda film from 1930's America. Yes they got it wrong, and maybe it?s funny to watch when you?re having a smoke of the green stuff but at the end of the day its actually quite dull to watch with only very fleeting moments of unintentional humour! Students wi...( read more)ll still have the poster up for many years to come though (Although I bet only half of them have seen it!)
  • January 7, 2009
    One of the most ABYSMAL PIECES OF DOG SHIT ever put on screen. FUCK this movie's asshooooooolio!
  • July 7, 2008
    Not particularly good--just a piece of poorly executed propaganda that came out coincidentally around the same time that marijuana was made illegal. It's more funny than anything and this movie will probably make you want to make you smoke pot more than scare you from doing it. A...( read more)ll funny, nothing else.
  • November 30, 2007
    The fact that a guy kills his entire family with an ax is priceless.
  • June 5, 2007
    This was meant as a serious warning to America - but bad science and a hysterical attitude makes this a laugh-out-loud funny film 70 years later.
  • July 9, 2009
    Painfully awful movie to watch. Though, the reefer induced frenzies are indeed, comical. They're also so very wrong. Maybe if it was meth madness instead.
  • June 14, 2009
    It was kind of idiotic, or maybe I just don't get the humor.
  • June 13, 2009
    Only one word to describe this flick: Redonkulous.
  • June 10, 2009
    Ridiculously stupid. I can't believe that anyone would ever take this junk seriously. It blows my mind.
  • May 28, 2009
    It's so funny what people will say to get you to do things their way.

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  • BSR
    January 4, 2007
    I've already posted this in Reefer Madness (1936) but here it is again:


    Good news! Reefer Madness is Public Domain, meaning it can be freely downloaded, copied & distributed. Get it from Internet Archive:

    http://www.archive.org/details/reefer_madness1938

    For some reason, Flixster is separating the org from the details by putting an empty space between the slash '/' and 'd'

    You'll have to deal with that to get to the movie.

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