MARIHUANA

One Sheet (28" x 41")
Very Fine- Folded
Roadshow Attractions, 1936

This film was a small independent production and did not play in significant theaters. Although the film was about the evils of marijuana, the poster includes specific references to heroin with a syringe labeled "misery" and six marihuana joints labeled as harmful substances. The film was booked on a series of local circuits called "four-walling."

There is tanning on the bottom edge and along the fold lines. Also, there is some slight edge wear on the left side.

When Dwain Esper produced this film, that was the message he was conveying: that marijuana was addictive after one puff and would lead to heroin addiction. The lead character, a teenage girl, goes from smoking marijuana on a beach one night to getting pregnant and becoming a heroin dealer who is forced to give up her baby for adoption. It is one of the true cult classics of the 1930s and became far more prevalent on college campuses in the 1960s for its outdated depiction of the then-illegal substance.

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