Tell Your Children (1938)
Public enemy no. 1. Women cry for it… Men will die for it!
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.
- Date of release
- 1938-06-15
- TMDB
- 4.4 / 10 (143)
- Runtime
- 1h 6m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Louis J. Gasnier
Casting
- Dorothy Short — Mary
- Kenneth Craig — Bill
- Lillian Miles — Blanche
- Dave O'Brien — Ralph
- Thelma White — Mae
- Carleton Young — Jack
- Warren McCollum — Jimmy
- Patricia Royale — Agnes
- Joseph Forte — Dr. Carroll
- Harry Harvey Jr. — Junior
- Richard Alexander — Pete Daley (uncredited)
- Bob Burns — Juror (uncredited)
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