Marihuana (1936 film)
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| Marihuana | |
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| Directed by | Dwain Esper |
| Story by | Hildagarde Stadie |
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| Cinematography | Roland Price |
| Edited by | Carl Himm |
| Distributed by | Roadshow Attractions Inc. |
Release date | May 1936 |
Running time | 57 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $100,000 |
Marihuana is a 1936 exploitation film directed by Dwain Esper, and written by Esper's wife, Hildagarde Stadie.[1]
Plot
Burma is a confused girl who likes to party. One day she meets some strangers in a bar who invite her and her group to a party. At the party everybody drinks alcohol and the girls unknowingly smoke marijuana, which keeps them laughing. Burma and her boyfriend have sex on the beach while her friends go skinny-dipping.
One of the girls drowns at the skinny-dipping party and all her friends must keep the details of the party a secret. When Burma tells her boyfriend she's pregnant from their beach encounter, she pressures him to marry her. He says everything will be fine and turns to the strangers who threw the party for a job to support his family-to-be. The stranger gives him a job unloading smuggled drugs from a secret shipment to the docks. The police find out about this shipment, chase the smugglers, and shoot and kill Burma's boyfriend.
After Burma finds out about this news, she runs away from home, is forced to give her baby up for adoption, and becomes a drug dealer. She moves on to harder drugs, including injecting heroin into her body. In the film's ending, Burma hatches a plan to kidnap and ransom her sister's adopted daughter for $50,000, then finds out that the child is actually her own.
Production and release
The film's screenwriter, Hildagarde Stadie, appears as an extra in the beginning of the film.
The original trailer showed a girl being brutally attacked, but this scene does not appear in the final film.[citation needed]
In 1938, Roadshow Attractions packaged Marihuana with the short film How to Undress in Front of Your Husband.[1]
See also
References
External links
- Marihuana at IMDb
- Marihuana is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
- Marihuana at the TCM Movie Database
- Marihuana at AllMovie
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