Assassin of Youth

Starring:Luana Walters, Arthur Gardner, Fay McKenzie, Michael Owen, Dorothy Short, Dorothy Vaughan, Earl Dwire, Fern Emmett, Henry Roquemore, Gay Sheridan, Hudson Faucett, Edwin Johnson, Jack Ingram, Eva McKenzie, Edward Hearn
Director: Elmer Clifton
Studio: Alpha Video
Product Type: DVD

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For those wanting to complete their collection

Assassin of Youth
Starring: Luana Walters , Arthur Gardner , Fay McKenzie , Michael Owen , and Dorothy Short
Director: Elmer Clifton
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ASIN: B0002W4UIO
Release Date: 2004-10-26

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For those wanting to complete their collection.......2005-11-14

Here is another one of those terrible and zany anti-marijuana films made by the government in the 1930's. It's much like the other, unknown actors, inept storyline, goofy dancing, and of course 'reefer cigarettes'. This film is not over the top hilarious like 'Reefer Madness', nor it does not have nudity like 'Marihuana'. It does not even have a decent story like 'Cocaine Fiends'. If you collect these films, this is a must for your collection, but personally, this is my least favorite.

A 'good girl' Joan, sets to inherit a small fortune from her grandmother, the only stipulation is that she be a 'good girl'. In steps Linda, the only real reason to watch this flick. She's the gold digging platinum blond with way too much eye makeup. She's really hot, I liked her alot. Anyway, she does everything she can to destroy Joan's reputation and get the money herself.

Of course being a 'bad girl' in the 30's must have been pretty easy. Joan is at an outdoor party and falls in the lake. She borrows a coat while her clothes are drying on the fire. Linda gets the clothes to catch fire, resulting in Joan coming home in only a coat. Wearing a coat and nothing else in 1930 means you are 'naked'. Linda also drugs Joan to get her to sleep the night at a strange house. When she comes home in the morning she is marked as a harlot by the town.

Well a newspaper reporter is trying to do a story on marijuana so he takes a job at a malt shop to be undercover. He meets Joan and uses her to break the story. In an unclimatic courtroom scene he bursts in at the last minute saving Joan's reputation and inheritance, while Linda is faced with her newly arrested reefer suppliers.

This film is pretty bad. The old coot who runs the soda shop is OK and has his moments in a Gabby Hayes type of way. The old lady who rides the moped is probably the funniest character. The film shows her leaving her house on the moped about four or five times. She'll go through the town proclaiming 'Joan's in jail! Joan's in jail!' She's basiclly the village gossip who needs to know and tell everybody about everything.

That's about it. Thanks for reading.

Marihuana/Assassin of Youth/Reefer Madness

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Cinematic proof that smoking grass makes you giggle uncontrollably
Hours of entertainment
Amazing discovery...
It was funny as hell !!! Get it while you can!!!
Spawn of Harry Anslinger...

Marihuana/Assassin of Youth/Reefer Madness
Starring: Luana Walters , Arthur Gardner , Fay McKenzie , Michael Owen , and Dorothy Short
Director: Elmer Clifton , Dwain Esper , and Louis J. Gasnier
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ASIN: B000051S5Y
Release Date: 2000-12-05

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Stop! Don't light that joint until you watch these three crackpot cannabis classics from the 1930. Get the inside dope on the drug craze, and see what actually happens behind the locked doors of a marijuana party! Reefer turns a good girl into a heroin-selling slut in the delirious, over-the-top non-masterpiece "Marihuana" (1936, 56 min.), from infamous exploitation film pioneer Dwain Esper (Maniac). Then, a clean-cut reporter tries to infiltrate a teenage gang of delinquent potheads in "Assassin of Youth" (1937, 73 min.), only to plunge into a pit of doobie-induced immorality. Plus, as a special bonus, the one and only "Reefer Madness" (1936, 65 min.) as you've never seen it before--digitally transferred from a beautiful 35mm print.

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Cinematic proof that smoking grass makes you giggle uncontrollably.......2005-11-12

There are three things you need to know before you launch into this Something Weird triple feature of classic anti-marijuana movies from the 1930s. First, the disc seems to want you to watch "Reefer Madness" first. The menu is the titles of the three movies and the special features link shown through a smoky haze. So here I was wondering why "Reefer Madness" looked exactly like "Marihuana." I eventually figured it out, but it took a moment because the prints that Something Weird came up with to make this DVD do not always have the same title by which the film is best known. So "Reefer Madness" appears under the reissue title "Doped Youth (Victims of Marijuana)" (it was originally called "Tell Your Children"). Finally, you can tell these are anti-drug propaganda films because they all begin with a scroll that tells you just that, otherwise you might think these movies were intended to entertain rather than educate.

"Marihuana" (1936) was the film that shocked me the most, mainly because there was nudity when the girls, high on reefer, decide to go skinny-dipping. I knew these films were all pre-Code, but this was still a surprise. Burma Roberts (Harley Wood) is getting high with her boyfriend, Dick Collier (Hugh McArthur), and while the other girls are out running around naked in the surf she gets pregnant. Dick goes to work for drug dealer Tony Sentello (Pat Carlyle) but gets killed the first day. This forces Burma to give up her baby and become a drug-dealing prostitute known as "Blondie." She ends up taking over the gang and comes up with the bright idea of kidnapping her sister's daughter. After Burma disappeared the sister married into high society, and if you do not see the twist coming at the end of this one you must be high. But notice they use music from "La Traviata" at the end to underscore the tragic ending of this morality play.

I first saw "Assassin of Youth" (1937) on a college campus at a midnight showing. Every time Henrietta Frisbie (Fern Emmett) went by on her little motor scooter we would all start dong the Wicked Witch's theme from "The Wizard of Oz" (it still works). A kid high on weed runs down old Mrs. Barrie and she leaves her fortune to her granddaughter Joan Barrie (Luana Walters), provided she lives a moral life. But Linda Clayton (Fay McKenzie) is next in line for the money, so she and her boyfriend Jack Howard (Michael Owens) plot to get Joan high and/or drunk in public. Henrietta Frisbie is perfectly willing to spread gossip about Joan around town, but fortunately she has "Pop" Brady (Earl Dwire) and reporter Art Brighton (Arthur Gardner). There is just so much comic relief in this movie, provided by the adults in the courtroom scene, that it really is more of a melodrama than an anti-drug film.

"Reefer Madness" (1936) is the "Citizen Kane" of marijuana films for good reason. In the history of camp, the piano player getting high in the closet is as iconic as Scarlett vowing she will never be hungry again. We begin with Dr. Carroll (Josef Forte), principal of the local high school, warning the parents against the dangers of marijuana and telling the story of Bill Harper (Kenneth Craig) and Mary Lane (Dorothy Short). They attend a party at the apartment of Mae Coleman (Thelma White) and Jack Perry (Carleton Young), where joints are being given free to get the teens hooked. Also there are Ralph Wiley (Dave O'Brien), another student who likes Mary, and Blanche (Lillian Miles), a moll, who like Bill. Then Mary's kid brother Jimmy (Warren McCullum) gets hooked on drugs by Blanche and ends up killing someone in a hit-and-run while high. When Bill ends up with Blanche and Ralph attacks Mary, Bill goes after Ralph and during the fight a gun goes off and Mary ends up dead. Bill is innocent but he ends up on trial while the crooks try to cover up what really happened. Justice triumphs in the end, but not before the wages of sin are played out while Dr. Carroll continues to provide stern lectures on the subject.

What makes these movies so laughable is their insistence that smoking grass gives you the giggles. You contrast the wild eyed laughing maniacs of these 1930s films with the stereotypical hippies mellowing out by smoking grass from the 1960s, and no wonder it was so easy to dismiss these films and their warnings on the dangers of weed. It is not too farfetched to watch "Marihuana" and think that if young men associate the drug with women wanting to run around naked they would be trying to get their hands on some demon weed as soon as the movie was over. The commentary track for "Marihuana" has SW guru Mike Vraney interviewing David F. Friedman about this particular type of exploitation film as well as the way Roadshows were done way back then. There are theatrical trailers for "Marihuana," "assassin of Youth," and "Devil Harvest," as well as a marijuana excerpt from "Wages fo Sin." There are a couple of shorts, "Sinister Menace" and the silent "High on the Range," and a Gallery of Drug Scare Exploitation Art featuring Drug Scare Radio-Spot Rarities that are always a joy to check out. Also, check out Vraney's chapter titles for each film. Next on the agenda: "Reefer Madness: The Musical."

Hours of entertainment.......2003-05-20

Making the 1980's cloyingly Just Say No campaigns look decidedly high brow in comparison, these three 1930's gems are critical entertainment values.

Most of the information contained on these films is badly directed and acted (just how far can an anti-drug message be streched before the most supportive audience member looses interest) but the inherent camp value is part of the product.

Were it not for the inevitably dated appearance of the actors and sets, etc...these films would probally be shown in modern school districts across the country. Youth from all socioeconomic backgrounds (but, especially the well-to-do who have both the free time and money) are continuing to abuse drugs, much to the consternation of elected officials from all political parties, who are trying to offer policy solutions to simmilarly anxious parents and community members.

I had first heard about these films in conjunction with an introductory College American History class discussion on political propaganda in the American drug war, and after surviving cheesy special issue sitcom episodes in the early 1980's, figured I had seen everything. Boy was I sorely mistaken.

It is interesting to note the administration of an admitted former cocaine user, himself the father of two girls with highly publicized substance abuse incidents of their own has the United States Goverment once again making commericals specifically targeting pot as one of the most dangerous drugs on the market.

Amazing discovery..........2002-01-29

Just finished the three movies in a row, and there are no regrets! This DVD is fun, and more: there are nice extras including an almost finished crazed strip act, trailers, picture gallery and all, and three flicks well presented. The picture/sound quality is not at all as bad as I suspected, in fact some "quality" classics can be found released in much inferior quality. And the movies... they are great, and if you love the atmosphere of the thirties, these films, especially watched late night, give you the wonderful feeling of really attending a wild party, even without actual reefer involved. Whereas "Marihuana" is really stupid and "Reefer Madness" beautifully overblown, "Assassin of youth" is actually quite grasping. All films involve some pretty people, posh clothes and wild lindyhop. What more to be desired???

It was funny as hell !!! Get it while you can!!!.......2002-01-17

I watched this movie with my friends .... It shows great 1930s acting when facial expressions, the tone of voices, and general setup of the sets were much more important then the stupid special effects we have now. When I watched the actors getting stoned and then acting stoned I could not believe that it was an act! I would highly recommend it to anybody who likes to smoke some funny weed. Oh, by the way it shows you how to pick up chicks by getting them stoned first - I tried it myself and it works great - just like in this movie !

Sorry ladies ...

Spawn of Harry Anslinger..........2001-07-28

In the 1930's, the precursor to today's DEA (FBN-Federal Bureau of Narcotics) was headed by an anti-marijuana fanatic named Harry Anslinger. With the aid of people like William Randolph Hearst, he helped to spread a thick blanket of lies about marijuana. Tales of instantaneous addiction, [...] perversion, listening to jazz music (no kidding!), and general hysteria over the plant resulted in the production of some cheesy, but definately entertaining, movies about the menace of pot. These three stand out, though Reefer Madness is probably the best known, and serve as prime examples of distortion and lies fueled by propaganda. Quite possibly where Drug Czars Bill Bennett and others obtained their information about marijuana.

Wicked Wonders of Mary Jane: Marijuana/Reefer Madness/Assassin of Youth/Wild Weed

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Release Date: 2005-03-22

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Hooo-hah!
Stoner Shorts rocks!!!
Stoner needs Shorts

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ASIN: B000FM7GQE

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A hand-picked cornucopia of "chronic" counterculture! A previously unreleased collection of hilariously odd short films and trippy cartoons including: Drugs are Like That, 50's Drug Addiction, Social Smoke & Mirrors-Tom, Social Smoke & Mirrors-Bunny, Betty Boop (1930s) +Plus other great Bonuses! This a fantastic voyage into the drug use of yesteryear. Timeless in it's truth, brutal in it's honesty and sincere in it's message, this 1 hour 37 minutes of the most medicinally induced fun your can have! The FEEL GOOD movie of the century!

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Hooo-hah!.......2006-06-08

I got the twofer from Promodvds ("Reefer Madness with Hemp for Victory" AND "Stoner Shorts vol.1") and was floored! If you have any interest in social history, or just want to laugh until you puke, you have to get this. The main features are 2 anti - drug films and 2 "social films". These were actually made to be played for kids in school! The "Social" films seem to be made for the purpose of discussion in maybe a high school social studies class or something. Get some friends together to watch these because I guarantee you'll wanna discuss this stuff MST3000 style! Oh, and the Betty Boop cartoons - I had NO idea she was so naughty, or controversial. I had looked this DVD up at stonershortsdvd [dot] com - there's more info than their amazon store, and there is a reel in quicktime of clips from the DVD- -I had to get this after seeing the reel and am so glad I did.

Stoner Shorts rocks!!!.......2006-05-24

Perfect for kicking back and relaxing with your "friends". Each one of the featured shorts is a scream. We had to watch "Tom" and "Drugs are like that twice in a row. I especially loved the voice over in 1950's Drug Addiction! It is so over the top it really gives Reefer Madness a run for the money . . . Please give us more! Oh, the FREE Movie I watched was awesome . . . it's "Swamp Women" - if you haven't seen it, another good reason to buy. I wish I had seen the Two For One DVD deal . . . where Reefer Madness (with Hemp for Victory) is coupled with Stoner Shorts for $14.95 (you can do a search here and it comes up - it's listed on the second page. I think it's the only DVD with Hemp for Victory on it, and I know that this collection of Stoner Shorts can't be found anywhere else. You can also get to that deal on Amazon from www.stonershortsdvd.com - plus the clip is there, more descriptions and you can send to a friend (which is good for a laugh)

Stoner needs Shorts.......2006-05-23

Gotta get it! The interface is as trippy as the rest of it. You can play all (straight thru) or play the "scrambled mix" - (just like your brain) I think this'll be great for my next party - even on in the background with the sound off, it's great the Betty Boop stuff coupled with the Vincent Collins short, really all of it is perfect - great price for what you get, especially with the extra free stuff, it's almost four times the Reefer Madness or Cocaine Fiends Length when added together. I would review each short, but there is so much to go over, their website does a decent job of explaining the parts if you're still wondering whether you should buy - plus there are some clips edited together there that you can download to your Ipod.

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Great Twofer!
Too young to know.
Mad about Reefer!

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ASIN: B000FNBYS4

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Reefer Madness is the quintessential cult classic. Originally made as a 1930's propaganda film, it was meant to scare America's youth away from drugs, showing them that one puff of the "demon weed" turns teens into raving reefer addicts. The height of camp entertainment! Includes BONUS "Hemp For Victory", a film by the US government on the merits of hemp.

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Great Twofer!.......2006-06-08

Too young to know........2006-05-23

OMG! I'm 19 and never saw anything like these films in school. I got the Reefer Madness and Stoner Shorts Combo (type in Reefer Combo) These DVDs are totally funny, it's so wierd to see how far the goverment would go to try scare kids to convince them that drugs are bad rather than just show them the truth. Seriously hilarious. I mean, I just say no to drugs - but they do a pretty convincing job of the opposite! I highly (no pun intended) recommend both DVDs!

Mad about Reefer!.......2006-05-23

Gotta get this! If you don't know about Reefer Madness it is a great Cult Classic - and this is the only version I know of with Hemp for Victory, which is a pretty odd flick on it's own. The government showing Farmers how to grow and harvest weed! I got it coupled with Stoner Shorts Vol.1, which is even better! (search for Stoner Shorts) The interface is as trippy as the rest of it. You can play all (straight thru) or play the "scrambled mix" - (just like your brain) I think this'll be great for my next party - even on in the background with the sound off, it's great the Betty Boop stuff coupled with the Vincent Collins short, really all of it is perfect - great price for what you get, especially with the extra free stuff, it's almost four times the Reefer Madness or Cocaine Fiends Length when added together. I would review each short, but there is so much to go over, their website does a decent job of explaining the parts if you're still wondering whether you should buy - plus there are some clips edited together there that you can download to your Ipod.

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