American marijuana documentary beyond the hysteria of reefer madness and past. The movie musical, you realize you are hearing the best thing to hit the great white way and the showtime cable television since little shop of horrors, only this is far funnier, raunchier, and way more subversive. In his story, a drug supplier entices several restless teens, including sister and brother mary dorothy short and jimmy lane warren mccollum and marys boyfriend, bill kenneth craig, into frequenting a reefer house. The results of pratts research impacted every aspect of shipping by reefer, from how goods are packed to how cool air is pumped into containers from below rather than above. It lists over 420 movies to watch stoned and features. Reefer madness original trailer 1936 not the full film. Originally called tell your children, this antimarihuana film from 1936, was directed by louis gasnier and originally financed by a concerned church group and intended for parents, but was picked up by producer dwain esper who recut it as an exploitation film. And among all the containers are a special subset of temperaturecontrolled units known in the global cargo industry, in all seriousness, as reefers. Reefer movie madness is a book published by abrams image in october 2010. Reefer madness the film detective restored version. It tells the story of high school kids who after one puff of weed become hopeless addicts with. Or at least thats how the opening crawl of reefer madness tells it.
Reefer madness is certainly the most wellknown anti cannabis film of all time. In the 30s it was the insanity resulting from smoking the weed with roots in hell known as marijuana. Here at enotes, there is a comprehensive summary as well as several sources. Reefer madness tell your children doped youth movie. The films story is told in bracketing sequences at a lecture given at a parent teacher association meeting by highschool principal dr. A trio of drug dealers lead innocent teenagers to become addicted to reefer. Reefer madness, a classic in the annals of hemp literature, is the popular social history of marijuana use in america. Distributing reefer madness to college campuses of the 1970s helped bankroll the burgeoning film company new line cinema, which today is a major player in the hollywood film industry. The musical begins much like the original film, with a group of parents gathering at a local high school in the.
In 1936 the film reefer madness was released in the theaters to the public. This guide will help you find all the clues, answer all the questions correctly, and get the 5 star rating. But what works onstage often falls flat on the screen, where the visual language and pacing expectations are different, and performers have to work harder to bring across the live energy that keeps musicals moving. With kristen bell, christian campbell, neve campbell, alan cumming. Reefer madness 1936 feature drama video dailymotion. Imagine if real life stoners were to hang out with the stoners in this movie.
Reefer madness originally made as tell your children and sometimes titled as the burning question, dope addict, doped youth, and love madness is a 1936193. Reefer madness, recut from a propaganda film called tell your children, is not so bad its good but just awful plodding, almost plotless, and only in places unwittingly amusing. The true story behind norml and the politics of marijuana. Is not the 1936 original version, but the dwain esper expended and reedited 1938 version. He claims reefer madness, the classic cult film which the two critics are. Their study was published online tuesday in the journal molecular psychiatry. While a familiar setup, this movie was noted for touches of realism including showing real techniques of drug agents. The film, which jack proceeds to show, is the original reefer madness tell your children 1936, but with a completely new soundtrack including dialogue, music, and sound effects. With bob buchholz, michael cheselka, connie sue cook, john p. Today, the film is a cult phenomenon dwarfed only by the rocky horror picture show, and reefer madness is a bona fide catch phrase. This onstage reefer madness provokes laughter by sticking to its premise without winking once. Five friends, drugs, documentaries, crime, movies, films, sketches, watch. A description of tropes appearing in reefer madness.
The true story is 1985 comedy film directed by kent skov. Watch reefer madness movie trailers, exclusive videos, interviews from the cast, movie clips and more at. It was intended to show parents the dangers of the immoral drug known as cannabis. Reefer madness originally made as tell your children and sometimes titled as the burning question, dope addict, doped youth, and love madness is a 1936 american film about drugs revolving around the melodramatic events that ensue when highschool students are lured by pushers to try marijuanafrom a hit and run accident, to manslaughter. Reefer madness era films 1938 1941 the years of change. Reefer madness is still dumb, somehow cool, and remains. Beginning with the hemp farming if george washington, author larry ratso sloman traces the fascinating story of our nations lovehate relationship with the resilient weed we know as marijuana. As we have w20m x hm outdoor cinema screen and 15000 ansi digital christies projector we would need maximum quality from the screened film. Cautionary tale features a fictionalized take on the use of marijuana. If ever there was a bad movie with a good message its reefer madness, an insane propaganda pic made to demonstrate the evils of puffing on a joint even. Reefer madness on dvd 874757024394 from american pop classics. Noire reefer madness case guide starts with you and roy walking into speak with the captain. The original antimarijuana film, offering the true inside story of the devil weed that drives men to savage lusts and women to unspeakable depravities, along with a little bit of dumb fun.
Here is the mother lode of offbroadway shows cum cable cult classics. We plan to screen cult classic reefer madness in july 2010 in the summer outdoor cinema in tallinn, estonia. Robert buchholz and michael cheselka are starring, alongside connie sue cook, john p. Based on the stage play, this musical parody of 1936 film reefer madness takes that already overblown criticism of marijuana usage in the source film and ups the ante to humorous effect. Gasnier, herman hertz on allmovie this unabashed propaganda film also known by the. You can always find reefer madness in our collection, 1,150 free movies online. And its a good thing, too, as this is one of the best musicals ive seen in quite some time. An outrageous tongueincheek musical comedy adaptation of the classic antimarijuana propaganda film reefer madness 1936. Reefer madness era films 1934 the year the campaign. There are around 6,000 cargo vessels out on the ocean right now, carrying 20,000,000 shipping containers, which are delivering most of the products you see around you. The book is a look at the three pillars of the underground economy of the united states, estimated by schlosser to be ten percent. Today its a humurous description used by potheads to describe the stigma and false beliefs believed and enforced by the uneducated and ignorant to marijuana. The era of the big hollywood musical is long gone, but in live theater, the genre lingers on through recent hits like avenue q and wicked.
Herein we find antiheroes such as allen ginsberg, robert mitchum the first. Cleancut wasp couple bill and mary are innocent high school students who play tennis and drink tea on the back porch. The movie musical on dvd, i think it can be said this little flick has truly come full circle. In a flat blackandwhite frame story set in 1936 when the original cautionary film reefer madness was made, he sits down with a group of naive townsfolk to watch the filmed story of christian campbell and kristen bell, a painfully perky, applecheeked, allamerican couple torn apart when a single puff on a gigglestick turns campbell into. English catala cestina dansk deutsch espanol francais indonesian italiano nederlands polski. It was originally released under the title tell your children by a church group but soon fell into the hands of movie producers. We have been shown clips of the original film where perry was portrayed as a lowlife drug pusher. Reefer madness is a 19361939 american propaganda film revolving around the melodramatic events that ensue when high school. Reefer madness, 1936s most unintentionally hilarious antidrug. Jan 30, 2014 unabashed propaganda film on the perils of marijuana use. Produced in the 1930s as a warning this film is now recognised as one of the funniest, lamest and downright bizarre attempts at demonising a recreational habit.
In the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s marijuana was the devils harvest, an assassin of youth that would inflict tokers with a new medical condition called refer madness, curable only by severe sobriety. Today, its in the public domain and considered so bad, its good, and has even inspired a 1998 musical satire which itself was adapted. Reefer madness is certainly the most wellknown anticannabis film of all time. Jack is now seen as a bumbling undercover police detective who is trying to break up a drug ring headed by the evil dr.
The original antimarijuana film 1936, offering the true inside story of the devil weed that drives men to savage lusts and women to unspeakable depravities, along with a little bit of dumb fun. The current mpeg2 might remain little lofi for our purposes. With dorothy short, kenneth craig, lillian miles, dave obrien. Reefer madness originally made as tell your children and sometimes titled as the burning question, dope addict, doped youth, and love madness is a 1936 american film about drugs revolving around the melodramatic events that ensue when highschool students are lured by pushers to try marijuanafrom a hit and run accident, to manslaughter, suicide, attempted rape, hallucinations, and descent. Reefer madness is a 1936 american film about drugs revolving around the melodramatic.
Over the past decade or so there seems to have been a dramatic increase in the. There are 5 trophies and 4 of these trophies must be earned at the appropriate time or restarting the case from the beginning may be required. Its all a lie or so screams our hero, detective jack perry. The industry has continued to evolve in the decades since pratts stint. The film ends with the ominous warning, the dread marijuana may be. Schizophreniamarijuana study flips the reefer madness equation. Possible reefer madness film 1950 federal man federal man william henry and pamela blake in story of a narcotics agent who travels to mexico to break up a drug smuggling ring after they kill another agent. Robert buchholz, michael cheselka, connie sue cook, john p. Reefer madness originally made as tell your children and sometimes titled as the burning question, dope addict, doped youth, and love madness is a 1936 american film about drugs revolving around the melodramatic events that ensue when highschool students are lured by pushers to try marijuanafrom a hit and run accident, to manslaughter, suicide, attempted rape, hallucinations, and descent into madness from marijuana addiction. The book is a look at the three pillars of the underground economy of the united states, estimated by schlosser to be ten percent of u. Film depicting the downfall of a high school reefer smoker shown during antidrug crusade.
A hilarious sendup of the 1936 exploitation film, now a cult classic. When hyde is busted and takes all the blame for the group, eric admits to red that he does drugs, which causes red to put a smoke detector in the basement. Film school 101 by the doors ray manzarek real pot or not. Originally conceived as a morality tale to warn parents against the dangers of cannabis, it was recut into an exploitation film, a lurid melodrama about. Opening with an explanation of the effects of the demon drug marihuana, reefer madness then explains that its subject is worse than heroin, cocaine, or any other recreational substance before launching into its story of the corruption of innocent, if suspiciously oldlooking, highschoolers. While the film clearly knows nothing of marijuana or its real effects or.
A major fact to be aware of is that the film reefer madness, the cult classic that youve probably seen a dozen times and is now all over the internet. The script dialog was transcribed from the 1936 movie, with added direction by doug snead, c 20078 as applicable. From the story of americas first drug czar, to the absurd scare tactics behind propaganda films like reefer madness, and marijuana. No films better represent the 1970s midnight movie phenomenon as reefer. Dorothy short, kenneth craig, lillian miles, dave obrien, thelma white, warren mccollum, carleton young. If it wasnt for the fact that one of the main characters while at a police station meets a marihuana addict, binnie bell, who is on good terms with the gang, and who talks her into taking a job at a gangster hangout.
Originally called tell your children, this antimarihuana film from 1936, was directed by louis gasnier. Carroll to parents at a pta meeting, of the scourge of marijuana. The story has more to do with an outlaw gang and a protection racket. The story of victor licata was widely used to promote the theory of a link between cannabis and. As it turns out, a good reefer doesnt just keep a consistent temperature it also regulates airflow and controls internal atmosphere. Reefer movie madness the ultimate stoner film guide. A trio of drug dealers lead innocent teenagers to become addicted to reefer cigarettes by holding wild parties with jazz music. Reefer madness era films 1934 the year the campaign starts. Reefer madness original trailer 1936 not the full film propaganda time. Propaganda film that relates the story, as told by high school principle dr. It is a film adaptation of the trios musical of the same name, itself based on the 1936 exploitation film also of the same title. The 21 best science movies and shows streaming on netflix that will make. Sex, drugs, and cheap labor in the american black market is a book written by eric schlosser and published in 2003.
With topher grace, mila kunis, ashton kutcher, danny masterson. About halfway through the soundtrack to reefer madness. Reefer madness the movie musical soundtrack and original. Unabashed propaganda film on the perils of marijuana use. A reconstruction of the screenplay for reefer madness, the 1936 antimarijuana exploitation propaganda movie.
Parents are lectured about the dangers of their children using marijuana with a cautionary tale of what happened to onceinnocent kids became addicted to reefer. This is the truelife story of a junkie turned multimillionaire drug. Reefer madness is a vice case allowing phelps and his partner, detective earle, to investigate a citywide marijuana distribution ring. Staring kenneth craig, lillian miles, dorothy short and dave obrien. Gradually, bill and jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives and leads to a terrible crime. Reefer madness 1936 enhanced this unabashed propaganda film is most.