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A resurrected review from the earliest days of the site:
In which evil marijuana pushers turn clean-cut young Americans into sex-crazed drug fiends (see left).
Oh! – and this one’s a bit NSFW, although not for the usual reason…
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I’ve also reformatted and added screenshots to FRANKENSTEIN (1910).
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Liz Kingsley is the insane genius behind And You Call Yourself a Scientist!
#1 by RogerBW on July 30, 2013 - 2:15 pm
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Ah, Anslinger, one of the men who made America the place it is today…
I’ve heard it said that Hearst was anti-hemp because he didn’t want the competition from cheap hemp paper, but I haven’t been able to verify this.
Certainly marijuana seems in the 1920s to have been more popular among the black than the white community, which made for an obvious way to demonise it.
“I don’t get it, Mae! I get the drugs from the boss, I give the drugs to the kids, so why ain’t we gettin’ rich?”
#2 by blake on July 30, 2013 - 3:19 pm
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My best friend’s brother bought this on a whim one day and we all sat down to watch it (their mother complained that they spent otherwise good money on a film like this). I don’t remember why, but we snickered at the names on the cast list and to this day, my best friend and I laugh whenever we hear the names “Agnes” and “Dorothy.”
#3 by Naomi on July 30, 2013 - 10:12 pm
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I will never not associate Hot Fingers Perrone with naked Terry Jones.
#4 by lyzard on July 30, 2013 - 10:55 pm
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What we have here is a very practical rendering of the dictum that crime doesn’t pay.
Your best friend’s mother was quite right, Blake, inasmuch as you guys spent more to watch Reefer Madness than the kids did on their drugs.
Then my work here is done!
#5 by PB210 on July 30, 2013 - 11:31 pm
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Dick Tracy’s a fair G-Man, I suppose, but he’s no Harry Anslinger…
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Dick Tracy faced Trigger Stark, the perpetrator referred to in the headline, in the 1938 serial Dick Tracy Returns. Trigger Stark originated in the serial, outside of the comic strip.
Dick Tracy, by the way, rarely had recurring foes, in contrast to so many of the later heroes created specifically for comic books.
#6 by lyzard on July 30, 2013 - 11:49 pm
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The 1938 serial? Which means that newspaper wasn’t in the original print of the film??
#7 by El Santo on July 31, 2013 - 7:59 pm
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Or it’s sheer coincidence. If we tried to count all the bad guys in 30’s and 40’s gangster movies that were called “Trigger [Somebody],” we’d be here all week, and “Stark” is a ridiculously common name (and thus easily hit upon by writers of fiction) wherever there are people of Germanic descent.
#8 by El Santo on July 31, 2013 - 8:02 pm
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Wait, nevermind. I misunderstood the point of PB210’s original post.
#9 by PB210 on July 31, 2013 - 12:32 am
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Dick Tracy Returns (1938) – IMDb
Dick Tracy battles spies and saboteurs in his efforts to bring to justice the Stark gang, a criminal family led by the vicious Pa Stark.
Ray Bennett … Trigger Stark (as Raphael Bennett)
#10 by Richard on August 1, 2013 - 1:40 pm
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Why am I suddenly picturing a Dick Tracy – Iron Man crossover?
#11 by Jen S on July 31, 2013 - 6:43 pm
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Good to know that if I ever off my entire family with an axe, I can use “Well, at least I wasn’t boning five young men at the time…wait, what?…you got any cookies?” as my defense.
I’ve watched this film about a billion times thanks to the Rifftraxs Live release, and it never gets old.
#12 by PB210 on July 31, 2013 - 11:11 pm
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I would have to say so. Another tip-off: they refer to Dick Tracy as a G-Man. Dick Tracy operates as a G-Man in San Francisco in the Republic serials rather than a Midwestern city police detective as in the comic strip.
#13 by James Lee on August 2, 2013 - 7:39 pm
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This film is actually more likely from 1938.
see here for more details – http://monsterkidclassichorrorforum.yuku.com/reply/714231/REEFER-MADNESS-questions#reply-714231
#14 by lyzard on August 5, 2013 - 12:49 am
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The film had been out there as Tell Your Children before Dwain Esper got his hands on it in 1938, though. I guess the question is, where and when?
#15 by Jen S on August 4, 2013 - 5:14 pm
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Oh, hey, Lyz, I forgot to ask–you have that one photo of Mary and Ralph captioned “Fun Fact–after making Reefer Madness together these two got married.” Is that true or just a joke, considering Ralph’s dating techniques?
#16 by lyzard on August 5, 2013 - 12:52 am
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No, it’s true! – Dave O’Brien and Dorothy Short got married in 1936. Which somehow makes the attempted rape even more uncomfortable.
#17 by Jen S on August 5, 2013 - 5:43 pm
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Well, I guess they’ve got a helluva “how we met” story…
#18 by lyzard on August 6, 2013 - 6:05 am
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That makes me think of one of my favourite Plan 9-related anecdotes: Gregory Walcott placating his exasperated agent after he agreed to do the film by saying, “It’s not like anyone’s ever going to SEE it!”