Tell Your Children

"Public enemy no. 1. Women cry for it… Men will die for it!"

Dec 1 1938 PG 1h 6m
Crime, Drama

High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.

Plot

Film that relates the story, as told by high school principal Dr. Carroll to parents at a PTA meeting, of the scourge of marijuana. The tale revolves around Mae and Jack, accomplices in the distribution of marijuana, who manage to entice the local high school kids to stop by Mae's apartment to smoke reefer. The lives of all who are involved with this menace are inevitably shattered. One man becomes so addicted to the killer weed that the guilt over framing a teen for murder causes a judge to order him to be committed for life to a mental hospital. Dr. Carroll closes by advising us to not incur the same tragedy.

Written by

Lawrence Meade, Arthur Hoerl, Paul Franklin

Directed by

Louis J. Gasnier

Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

George A. Hirliman Productions

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Scores
# of Votes
9,577
Average Rating
3.7 out of 10
Metascore
70
Popularity
NA