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Not worth it
i was told this movie was great, very humorous, but it wasn't. there were a couple parts that were funny, but the quality is terrible (even for a movie made in 1935). it hasn't been cleaned up or repaired at all and it's very, very hard to see. it's not worth the money in the slightest.

Great
Ok the movie is excelent everybody is taking cocaine all the time. The girls are hoot and have good asses.... well the end is not that good cause everybody runs out of cocaine and they kill each other.... u know

Just What Mom Told You Would Happen...
COCAINE FIENDS concerns a guy named Eddie and his hopeless search for his "drugged-out" sister Jane (Lois January). Jane became a shriveled up sleaze-bucket after being introduced to cocaine by a dope-peddler named Nick (Noel Madison). Along the way, Eddie himself is given cocaine by a girl he meets, sending him deep into the bowels of depravity! Watch and shudder! Extra points for spotting the rodent wallpaper in the notorious "Dead Rat Cafe"! Thankfully, it's only about an hour long... ... Read more

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Welcome to the glorious world of crude cinematography, jarring editing, bizarre dialogue, acting that ranges from stilted to overwrought, and a weird mixture of over-the-top sentimentality, lurid lip smacking, and stern warnings about immorality--this is the world of 1930s social-hygiene films, out to rid the U.S. of dope fiends and sex maniacs. Reefer Madness is the most famous--justly so for its ridiculous depictions of hyperactive, sex-crazed pot smokers. Watch as Billy, straight-arrow high school student, is instantly addicted from smoking a marihuana cigarette! With a good dose of voyeurism and violence, Reefer Madness provides lots of unintentional entertainment. Sex Madness tells a similar tale of innocence gone astray, only this time it's syphilis that ultimately destroys a happy family. "Must there always be a social side to this business?" sighs a former beauty queen as an agent tries to pimp her out. This movie's most notable feature is its erratic narrative--whatever became of the lesbian secretaries that were introduced in the first few scenes? And note that the filmmakers' high moral purpose doesn't prevent them from showing a long scene in the dressing room of a burlesque club. But Cocaine Fiends may be the best of the trio; again, a small-town girl and her brother have their lives ruined by wicked drugs, and there's plenty of campy dialogue and acting--but there's a strange power to the movie's later scenes, where the low budget has led to an almost expressionistic use of light and shadow. All in all, a strange and fascinating look at America's love-hate relationship with sex and drugs. --Bret Fetzer ... Read more

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1) Reefer Madness (Tell Your Children):

(c. 1938-USA). With DOROTHY SHORT, KENNETH CRAIG, LILIAN MILES, DAVE OBRIEN, CARLETON YOUNG. "The motion picture you are about to witness may startle you. It would not have been possible otherwise to sufficiently emphasize the frightful toll of the new drug menace which is destroying the Youth of America in alarmingly increasing numbers. Marihuana is that drug, a violent narcotic...an unspeakable scourge. THE REAL PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE!" A fictionalized "true" story of the horrors of marihuana, hopelessly dated, very 1930s. "One moment of bliss. A lifetime of regret." 67 minutes. ... Read more