Reefer Madness

1936 | PG | 67 min

"America's newest narcotic menace!"

"Drug-crazed abandon!"

"The burning weed with its roots in HELL!"

"Women cry for it - men die for it!"

To celebrate the 20th of April, Midtown Cinema will feature the most infamous propaganda film of all time, 1938's morality tale REEFER MADNESS - a movie of mayhem, drugs, sex, and murder, caused by the then little-understood drug making its way around America: cannabis.

In REEFER MADNESS, a trio of drug dealers lead innocent teenagers to become addicted to "reefer" cigarettes by holding wild parties with (gasp!)***jazz music***!!!

See this wildly inaccurate and inadvertently silly exploitation film at Midtown Cinema, accompanied by a ZeroDay beer (open for food and drinks til 8:00pm!)

tickets at the box office or midtowncinema.com

ABOUT THE FILM:
High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll (Josef Forte) relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens. In his story, a drug supplier entices several restless teens, including sister and brother Mary (Dorothy Short) and Jimmy Lane (Warren McCollum) and Mary's boyfriend, Bill (Kenneth Craig), into frequenting a "reefer" house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives and leads to a terrible crime.