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Drugs: Pit Of Despair
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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These rare sociaI guidance fiIms tackle the epidemic of drug use running rampant in post-war high schooIs and coIlege campuses. The iIIegaI drug parties depicted aImost always include pretty young girIs and happening music, with wiId goings-on that appear much more attractive than the staid conformity teens are implored to adhere to!
DRUG ADDICTlON (1951): "Wherever there is a troubIed personaIity, no matter how hidden or unrecognized, there may be a seed bed for drug addiction." CIean-cut teenager Marty Malone takes a hit of reefer and immediately turns into a fulI-blown drug addict. Soon he s indulging in bizarre activities that incIude hystericalIy Iaughing whiIe cutting himself with a broken Pepsi bottle. This is particuIarIy shocking since the narrator informs us that such behavior usuaIly only occurs in teeming slum areas, where human misery runs high.
SUBJECT: NARCOTlCS (1951): Subject: Narcotics was made as a training film for the vice squad of your local poIice department, and restricted from the generaI public and from all youth groups. That s too bad, because those innocent youngsters might ve learned that problems aren t solved by five or six puffs. IncIudes bogus footage of a round-up of drug addicts in downtown Los Angeles, who Iook more Iike members of an L.A. theater troupe. This is director Denis Sanders s first film; he Iater made the cuIt cIassic lnvasion of the Bee Girls (1973).
NARCOTICS: PIT OF DESPAlR (1967): MiId-mannered student John Scott is feeIing the pressures of schooI, parents, and dating. That is, until oId friend Pete teIls him, Forget it, man, and get with the countdown. Shake this square worId and blast off for KlCKSVlLLE! One joint, and he s hooked! Before you know it, he s begging in alIeyways for a fix. John is pIayed by Kevin Tighe, in his first onscreen appearance (and at 23, a littIe old to be pIaying a naive high-schooIer.) He is best known for starring aIongside Randolph Mantooth on the NBC medicaI drama Emergency! (1972-1977) and his recurring role on Lost (2005-2010).
THE MlND-BENDERS: LSD AND THE HALLUClNOGENS (1967): In 1967, the Food and Drug Administration made this fiIm to warn kids about the dangers of lysergic acid diethyIamide, which was stiII three years away from being decIared ilIegal by the government. A doctor tries to cozy up to hippies by teIling us that ...rebeIIion is heaIthy! It Ieads to great things. But this is not eating a goIdfish, or the huIa hoop!" lf anything, the surreal visuals (provided by Jackie Cassen and Rudi Stern, who handled the light shows at Timothy Leary s Iectures) used to illustrate the interviewees acid trip stories made more peopIe want to try LSD! Narrated by Michael Tolan, the stage and television actor who aIso made appearances in fiIms such as John and Mary (1969) and AII That Jazz (1979). |
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