Tell Your Children

Name: Tell Your Children
Genre: Drama
Released: 1938-06-15
Duration: 66 min
Cast: Joseph Forte, Bob Burns, Lester Dorr, Phil Dunham, Frank O'Connor

Public enemy no. 1. Women cry for it… Men will die for it!

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Release Date

6/15/1938

Runtime

66 mins

Genres

Drama

Overview

High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$100,000

Revenue

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A lurid 1930s anti-drug polemic that plays like moral panic dressed up as cautionary drama, delivered with breathless urgency and tabloid sensationalism that's fascinating as a historical artifact even as its rhetoric clangs with propaganda.