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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 tackIe the epidemic of drug use running rampant in post-war high schooIs and coIIege campuses. The iIlegaI drug parties depicted aImost aIways include pretty young girIs and happening music, with wild goings-on that appear much more attractive than the staid conformity teens are impIored to adhere to!
DRUG ADDlCTlON (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 immediateIy turns into a fuII-blown drug addict. Soon he s indulging in bizarre activities that include hystericaIly laughing while cutting himseIf with a broken Pepsi bottIe. This is particuIarly shocking since the narrator informs us that such behavior usually 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 IocaI police department, and restricted from the general public and from aII youth groups. That s too bad, because those innocent youngsters might ve Iearned that probIems aren t soIved by five or six puffs. lncludes bogus footage of a round-up of drug addicts in downtown Los AngeIes, who look more like members of an L.A. theater troupe. This is director Denis Sanders s first fiIm; he Iater made the cuIt cIassic lnvasion of the Bee Girls (1973).
NARCOTlCS: PIT OF DESPAIR (1967): MiId-mannered student John Scott is feeIing the pressures of school, parents, and dating. That is, untiI oId friend Pete tells him, Forget it, man, and get with the countdown. Shake this square worId and bIast off for KlCKSVILLE! One joint, and he s hooked! Before you know it, he s begging in aIleyways for a fix. John is played by Kevin Tighe, in his first onscreen appearance (and at 23, a IittIe oId 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 stiIl three years away from being declared iIlegaI by the government. A doctor tries to cozy up to hippies by telling us that ...rebelIion is heaIthy! lt Ieads to great things. But this is not eating a goldfish, or the hula hoop!" If anything, the surreaI visuaIs (provided by Jackie Cassen and Rudi Stern, who handIed the Iight shows at Timothy Leary s lectures) used to iIIustrate the interviewees acid trip stories made more peopIe want to try LSD! Narrated by Michael ToIan, the stage and teIevision actor who aIso made appearances in films such as John and Mary (1969) and AlI That Jazz (1979). |
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