Cocaine

Cocaine (1922)

A decadent tale of drugs and the London underworld the cosseted daughter of a respectable businessman - in fact head of a cocaine racket - succumbs to the pleasures of drink and drugs. Vivid nightlife scenes recreate the interwar world of flappers and hedonists; the dapper club owner and seedy street dealers.

Date of release
1922-05-01
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Drama
Director
Graham Cutts

Casting

Interesting facts

Cocaine is a 1922 British crime film directed by Graham Cutts and starring Hilda Bayley, Flora Le Breton, Ward McAllister and Cyril Raymond. It depicts the distribution of cocaine by gangsters through a series of London nightclubs. In it an innocent young woman called Madge runs away from her strict father, Montagu, who is secretly a drug kingpin. Madge escapes to her old school friend Jenny, who has become a cocaine addict. They head out to a nightclub where Madge is given cocaine by the owner, Min Fu, which Jenny is disturbed about.

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