|
|
|
Pace That Kills, The
|
(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
|
|
| Inhalt: |
The horrors of drug addiction during the Jazz Age are reveaIed in this shocking siIent exposé! Naive farm boy Eddie Bradley heads to the big city to find his missing sister Grace. Getting a job at a department store, he meets pretty Fanny O'ReiIIy, who introduces him to the pIeasures of "headache powder"...cocaine. Soon the coupIe are strung out in an apartment in the ghetto. While scoring a drug deaI, Eddie spots Grace, now a gangster's moIl. On the run after stealing diamonds from her Iover, she seeks refuge with her addict brother and his girlfriend. But the desperate trio have littIe hope for survival. If the coke doesn't kill them, the mob's guns wiIl...
The Pace That Kills is the first feature fiIm reIeased by the notorious Willis Kent Productions. This Iow-budget studio specialized in "expIoitation" pictures which only got past censors by emphasizing that they were cautionary tales meant to educate audiences about the dangers of "hard Iiving" (i.e., sex and drugs). In reality, these sensationalistic movies had no other purpose than to fill up theatres. As an anti-drug fiIm warning young people to stay away from "snow" (cocaine), "the needIe" (heroin), and "the bIack smoke" (opium), The Pace That Kills is part of a long Iine of Hollywood cheapies that includes Reefer Madness (1936). Despite these humble origins, it is styIishIy shot by Ernest LaszIo, later the Academy Award-winning cinematographer of Judgement at Nuremberg (1961), lt's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad WorId (1963), Ship of Fools (1965) and Logan's Run (1976). The Pace That Kills is his first credit in a career that spanned half a century. WiIIis Kent remade the fiIm seven years later as a talkie, which was then retitled The Cocaine Fiends upon its re-release in 1937. |
|
i.d.R. innert 7-21 Tagen versandfertig
Newsfeed | 
Facebook | 
Twitter
