Roadshow Attractions

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American exploitation film distributor active in the 1930s, closely associated with producer-director Dwain Esper. The company booked sensational "adults only" pictures such as Maniac (1934) and Marihuana (1936) directly into theaters on a roadshow basis, often accompanied by live lectures.

Distributed

3.81936·57mPD

Drama, Crime

Dwain Esper's answer to Reefer Madness, billed on release as "Marihuana: The Weed with Roots in Hell." High schooler Burma Roberts (Harley Wood) falls in with a slick dealer whose beach-house parties lead to skinny-dipping, a drowning, a pregnancy, and eventually a kidnapping plot — all blamed on the demon weed. Like Esper's Maniac and Reefer Madness, it was an "adults only" roadshow picture sold on sensation rather than accuracy, and today it plays as a prime artifact of 1930s exploitation cinema. The film is in the public domain.

Drama · Crime

Marihuana

1936 - Drama