Drug Addiction

Drug Addiction

1951
20m
4.0

4.0/10

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Overview

Marty, a "good boy," experiments with marijuana and experiences "profound mental and emotional disturbances." As in all anti-drug films of this vintage, marijuana leads straight to "H," and Marty's decline continues until he is busted, rehabbed and reformed. Drug Addiction's stilted view of the urban drug culture and unrealistic portrayals of stoned slackers make it entertaining viewing today. It belongs to that little-known "second wave" of anti-drug films, the postwar scare stories about middle-class kids overcome by junkiedom. What this wave of films reveals is that drugs were an issue for white adolescents long before the psychedelic Sixties, and that the official response to the threat expressed a general, not specifically targeted paranoia.

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Production Information

Production Companies
Encyclopædia Britannica Films
Production Countries
United States of America
Spoken Languages
English

Keywords

drug dealer heroin drug addiction junkie arrest marijuana drug overdose anti drugs cautionary tale

Quick Facts

Release Date January 1, 1951
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt0259990

Cast

John Galvarro
John Galvarro

Marty Malone

James Brill
James Brill

Narrator