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''Reefer Madness'' (originally made as ''Tell Your Children'' and sometimes titled ''The Burning Question'', ''Dope Addict'', ''Doped Youth'', and ''Love Madness'') is a 1936 American
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about
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, revolving around the melodramatic events that ensue when
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students are lured by pushers to try
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upon trying it, they become addicted, eventually leading them to become involved in various crimes such as a hit and run accident,
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,
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,
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to murder and attempted
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. While this is all happening they suffer
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, descend into
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, associate with organized crime and (in one character's case) commit
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. The film was directed by
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and featured a cast of mainly little-known actors. Originally financed by a church group under the title ''Tell Your Children,'' the film was intended to be shown to parents as a
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attempting to teach them about the dangers of cannabis use. Soon after the film was shot, it was purchased by producer
Dwain Esper Dwain Atkins Esper (October 7, 1894 – October 18, 1982) was an American director and producer of exploitation films. Biography A veteran of World War I, Esper worked as a building contractor before switching to the film business in the mid-19 ...
, who re-cut the film for distribution on the
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circuit, exploiting vulgar interest while escaping censorship under the guise of moral guidance, beginning in 1938–1939 through the 1940s and 1950s. The film was "rediscovered" in the early 1970s and gained new life as an unintentional satire among advocates of cannabis policy reform. Critics have called it one of the worst films ever made and has gained a
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within
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. Today, it is in the
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in the United States.


Plot

Mae Coleman and Jack Perry are a cohabitating couple who sell marijuana. The unscrupulous Jack sells the drug to teenagers over Mae's objections; she'd rather stick to an adult clientele. Ralph Wiley, a sociopathic college dropout turned dealer, and siren Blanche help Jack recruit new customers. Ralph and Jack lure high school student Bill Harper and college student Jimmy Lane to Mae and Jack's apartment. Jimmy takes Bill to a party where Jack runs out of reefer, and Jimmy, who has a car, drives him to pick up more. When they get to Jack's boss' "headquarters", Jimmy asks for a cigarette as Jack gets out and he gives him a joint. By the time Jack returns, Jimmy is unknowingly high; he drives away recklessly and hits a pedestrian. A few days later, Jack tells Jimmy that the man died of his injuries and agrees to keep Jimmy's name out of the caseif Jimmy will agree to "forget he was ever in Mae's apartment." As the police did not have enough specific details to track Jimmy down, he indeed escapes punishment. Bill, whose once-pristine record at school has rapidly declined, has a fling with Blanche while high. Mary, Jimmy's sister and Bill's girlfriend, goes to Mae's apartment looking for Jimmy and accepts a joint from Ralph, thinking it's a regular cigarette. When she refuses Ralph's advances, he tries to rape her. Bill comes out of the bedroom and, still high, hallucinates that Mary is willingly offering herself to Ralph and attacks the latter. As the two are fighting, Jack knocks Bill unconscious with the butt of his gun, which inadvertently fires, killing Mary. Jack puts the gun in Bill's hand, framing him for Mary's death by claiming he blacked out. The dealers lie low for a while in Blanche's apartment while Bill's trial takes place. Over the objections of a skeptical juror, Bill is found guilty. By now Ralph is paranoid from both marijuana and his guilty conscience. Blanche is also high; at one memorable point she plays the piano more and more rapidly as Ralph eggs her on. The boss tells Jack to shoot Ralph to prevent him from confessing, but when Jack arrives, Ralph immediately recognizes the threat and beats him to death with a stick as Blanche laughs uncontrollably in terror. The police arrest Ralph, Mae, and Blanche. Mae's confession leads to the boss and other gang members also being arrested. Blanche explains that Bill was innocent and agrees to serve as a material witness for the case against Ralph, but instead, she jumps out of a window and falls to her death, traumatized by her own adultery and its role in Mary's death. Bill's conviction is overturned, and Ralph, now nearly catatonic, is sent to an asylum for the criminally insane for the rest of his natural life. The film's story is told in
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sequences at a lecture given at a PTA meeting by high school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll. At the film's end he tells the parents he has been told that events similar to those he has described are likely to happen again, then points to random parents in the audience and warns that "the next tragedy may be that of your daughter... or your son... or yours or yours..." before pointing straight at the camera and saying emphatically "... or ''yours''!" as the words "TELL YOUR CHILDREN" appear on the screen.


Cast

* Dorothy Short as Mary Lane * Kenneth Craig as Bill Harper *
Lillian Miles Lillian Miles (August 1, 1907 – February 27, 1972) was an American actress in several films in the 1930s. Biography Miles was born in 1907 in Oskaloosa, Iowa. Aside from singing and performing in the celebrated 'Continental' musical number in ...
as Blanche * Dave O'Brien as Ralph Wiley *
Thelma White Thelma White (born Thelma Wolpa, December 4, 1910 – January 11, 2005) was an American radio and film actress. White is best known for her role in the 1936 exploitation film ''Reefer Madness''. Early life and career Born in Lincoln, Nebras ...
as Mae Coleman *
Carleton Young Captain Carleton Scott Young (October 21, 1905 – November 7, 1994) was an American character actor who was known for his deep voice. Early years Born in Fulton, Oswego, New York, Young was the second and only surviving child of St ...
as Jack Perry * Warren McCollum as Jimmy Lane * Pat Royale as Agnes * Josef Forte as Dr. Alfred Carroll * Harry Harvey Jr. as Junior Harper * Richard Alexander as Pete Daly, Pusher (uncredited) *
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as Joe – Bartender (uncredited) *
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as The Judge (uncredited) *
Forrest Taylor Edwin Forrest Taylor (December 29, 1883 – February 19, 1965) was an American character actor whose artistic career spanned six different decades, from silents through talkies to the advent of color films. Early years Taylor was born in Bl ...
as Blanche's Lawyer (uncredited)


Production and history

In 1936 or 1938, ''Tell Your Children'' was financed and made by a church group and intended to be shown to parents as a morality tale attempting to teach them about the dangers of cannabis use. It was originally produced by
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; however, some time after the film was made, it was purchased by
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maker
Dwain Esper Dwain Atkins Esper (October 7, 1894 – October 18, 1982) was an American director and producer of exploitation films. Biography A veteran of World War I, Esper worked as a building contractor before switching to the film business in the mid-19 ...
, who inserted salacious shots. In 1938 or 1939, Esper began distributing it on the exploitation circuit where it was originally released in at least four territories, each with their own title for the film: the first territory to screen it was the South, where it went by ''Tell Your Children'' (1938 or 1939). West of Denver, Colorado, the film was generally known as ''Doped Youth'' (1940). In New England, it was known as ''Reefer Madness'' (1940 or 1947), while in the Pennsylvania/West Virginia territory it was called ''The Burning Question'' (1940). The film was then screened all over the country during the 1940s under these various titles and Albert Dezel of Detroit eventually bought all rights in 1951 for use in roadshow screenings throughout the 1950s. Such education-exploitation films were common in the years following adoption of the stricter version of the
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in 1934. Other films included Esper's own earlier ''
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'' (1936) and Elmer Clifton's ''
Assassin of Youth ''Assassin of Youth'' is a 1937 exploitation film directed by Elmer Clifton. It is a pre-WWII film about the supposed ill effects of cannabis. The film is often considered a clone of the much more famous ''Reefer Madness'' (sharing cast member D ...
'' (1937) and the subject of cannabis was particularly popular in the hysteria surrounding Anslinger's
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, a year after ''Reefer Madness''.


Preservation and copyright status

The concept of after-market films in
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had not yet been developed, especially for films that existed outside the confines of the
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, and were therefore considered "forbidden fruit." For this reason, neither Esper nor original producer George Hirliman bothered to protect the film's
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; it thus had an improper copyright notice invalidating the copyright. Over 30 years later, in the spring of 1972, the founder of
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,
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, found a copy of the film in the
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archives and bought a print for $297. As part of a fundraising campaign, NORML showed ''Reefer Madness'' on college campuses up and down California, asking a $1 donation for admission and raising $16,000 toward support for the California Marijuana Initiative, a political group that sought to legalize marijuana in the 1972 fall elections.
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of
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eventually heard about the underground hit and went to see it at the
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. He noticed the film carried an improper copyright notice and realized it was in the public domain. Seeking material for New Line's college circuit, he was able to obtain an original copy from a collector and began distributing the film nationally, "making a small fortune for New Line." In 2004,
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restored and
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a print of the film, featuring intentionally unrealistic color schemes that add to the film's
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humor. The smoke from the "marihuana" was made to appear green, blue, orange and purple, each person's colored smoke representing their mood and the different "levels of 'addiction'". Film Freak Central criticized the colorization, writing that the color choices would better suit a film about
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than a film about cannabis. In 2020, a second restoration was produced by the Library of Congress in 4K from the original
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elements.


Reception and legacy

''Reefer Madness'' is considered to be a
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and one of the most popular examples of a
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. Its fans enjoy the film for the same unintentionally
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production values that made it a hit in the 1970s. The review aggregation website
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reported a 39% approval rating with an average rating of 4.4/10 based on 26 reviews.
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, on the other hand, assigned a score of 70 out of 100, based on 4 critics, which suggests "generally favorable reviews". The ''
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'' has claimed that ''Reefer Madness'' was the first film that a generation embraced as "the worst."
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has called it "the granddaddy of all 'Worst' movies." ''
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'' named it the "worst ever" runner-up to ''
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,'' and
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described it as "one of the worst movies ever made."


Adaptations

Sean Abley's stage adaptation, ''Reefer Madness'', ran for a year in Chicago in 1992, and had one showing in 1993 as well.
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featured a couple of clips from the film in the video for their song "Smoke the Sky" from their self-titled 1994 album. The song’s lyrics deal with marijuana use.
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's 1976 album Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music contains the track ''Reefer Madness'' inspired by the movie. The film was spoofed in the 1998 musical ''
Reefer Madness ''Reefer Madness'' (originally made as ''Tell Your Children'' and sometimes titled ''The Burning Question'', ''Dope Addict'', ''Doped Youth'', and ''Love Madness'') is a 1936 American propaganda film about drugs, revolving around the melodramat ...
'' (1998), which was later made into the television film ''
Reefer Madness ''Reefer Madness'' (originally made as ''Tell Your Children'' and sometimes titled ''The Burning Question'', ''Dope Addict'', ''Doped Youth'', and ''Love Madness'') is a 1936 American propaganda film about drugs, revolving around the melodramat ...
'' (2005) featuring actors
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,
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,
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and
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. The colorized DVD release featured a comedic
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by writer, comedian and actor
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of ''
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'' and
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(later Mike would be joined by Kevin Murphy and
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both in later live and studio versions). The video game ''
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'' includes a case, available as DLC, titled "''Reefer Madness''".


See also

* ''
Hemp for Victory ''Hemp for Victory'' is a black-and-white United States government film made during World War II and released in 1942, explaining the uses of hemp, encouraging farmers to grow as much as possible. During World War II, the Marihuana Tax Act of 1 ...
'' *
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*
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* ''
Perversion for Profit ''Perversion for Profit'' is a 1963 Eastmancolor propaganda film financed by Charles Keating through Citizens for Decent Literature and narrated by news reporter George Putnam. The film argues that sexually explicit materials corrupt youn ...
'' * ''
Sex Madness ''Sex Madness'' is a 1938 exploitation film directed by Dwain Esper, along the lines of ''Reefer Madness'', supposedly to warn teenagers and young adults of the dangers of venereal diseases, specifically syphilis.How to Undress in Front of Your Husband'' * ''
Reefer Madness (musical) ''Reefer Madness'' is a musical satire of the 1936 propaganda film and cult classic '' Reefer Madness'' that opened in Los Angeles in 1998.''Grass Roots'' documentary, 2005 The book and lyrics were written by Kevin Murphy and the book and music ...
''


References


External links

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