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The Cocaine Fiends
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0766483284664
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Alpha Video
Languages: English (Original Language),
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
MPN: 4135
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Alpha Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 15, 2003
Running Time: 60 minutes
Studio: Alpha Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1936
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Rating: - One Of The Better Exploitation Films Of The 30's
Jane Bradford is a small town girl lured into a life of big city vice by dope dealing mobster Nick. Jane's brother Eddie comes to the city to look for her. But soon he too is seduced into drug use by his coke sniffing girlfriend Fanny. A third subplot involves a rich party girl named Dorothy who likes to hang with the bad boys at the Dead Rat Cafe. In the end, Nick "gets his" though what happens to Jane and Eddie is left up in the air.
This drug related exploitation film differs from ... Read More
Rating: - Good if you like Bad!
This flick was a decent attempt for a low budget film. The acting was bad but not terrible. Interesting to me was that they wouldn't show anyone actually snorting the drug. They would pan away when someone was taking a snort. I guess they didn't want younger viewers to learn anything about the How-To part of doing drugs. The ending left a lot of loose ends dangling but whatcha gonna do?
Rating:  - Fascinating Antique of '30s druggies!
I was fascinated by this low-budget effort to portray a story in which the usual innocents are lured into a life of depravity and drug addiction. My Alpha copy was often so scarred and battered and dark that it actually enhanced the ambiance of dreary hopeliness for the main characters. A game cast tries to buoy this effort up despite the low-budget sets and budget. The best scenes are shot at the Dead Rat Bar where we're entertained by two long-gone and forgotten vocalists who were probably on the ... Read More
Rating:  - "I've got the grandest headache medicine in the world."
Producer Willis Kent, who specialized in westerners back in the day, switched gears late in his career focusing on the release of exploitive cautionary features, the stated intent being to warn an unsuspecting public of the evils of various illicit activities (I suspect his real goal was to capitalize on the public's fascination with luridness) as depicted in melodramatic features like Smashing the Vice Trust (1937), The Wages of Sin (1938), Mad Youth (1940), and this early entry titled The Cocaine ... Read More
Rating: - The endless War on Drugs
There are certain people who love and collect these government sponsored movies from the 1930's. 'Reefer Madness' is the most famous of these ridiculous pictires, but there are other very good ones, Cocaine Fiends is one of them. All the plots in these movies are the same. A good person (usually a young female) is steered off the wayward path by a slick talking hustler with drugs to sell.
In Cocaine Fiends a young girl who runs a restaurant with her mother makes the mistake of hiding a ... Read More
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