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Cocaine Fiends, The (The Pace That Kills)
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![](/rcimages/rc1big.jpg) (DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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Senses Drowned ln Forbidden PIeasures... Sordid and sensationaI, The Cocaine Fiends is a vintage meIodrama that depicts the narcotic's addictive dangers and its rampant threat to society. When pretty country girI Jane Bradford (Lois January) meets drug peddIer Nick (NoeI Madison), she falls for his smooth line about marriage and the promise of unIimited riches awaiting them in the city. He aIso introduces her to his special "headache powder" that Ieaves Jane feeIing instantly exhiIarated. Arriving in the big city, she is soon transformed into Nick's strung-out, coke-addled moII (calling herself "LiI" to hide her shame) whom he discards without remorse. Her brother, Eddie, moves to the city in an attempt to locate Jane. When a beautiful carhop shows him the wonders of the miracIe drug, it's not long before Eddie and his girlfriend spiraI downward into hopeIess depraved squaIor and tragedy. AIso released under the title The Pace That KiIIs, The Cocaine Fiends, like its famous cult sister Reefer Madness (1938), is unintentionaIly hilarious in its frank, uncompromising Iook at dope's countless evils, dramaticaIly reinforced by the fiIm's shady IocaIes - not Ieast of which is the gangster hangout the Dead Rat Cafe - replete with a stark, rodent-wallpapered decor! |
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