Release Date: June 11, 1916
Studio: Triangle Film Corporation
Director: Christy Cabanne, John Emerson
Written by: Todd Browning
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Bessie Love and Alma Rubens
Plot Summary: Coke Ennyday, the scientific detective, divides his own time in periods for “Sleep”, “Eat”, “Dope” and “Drink”. In fact he’s used to overcome every situation with drugs: consuming it to increase his energies or injecting it in his opponents to KO them. To help the police he discovers a contraband of opium (which he eagerly tastes) transported with “Leaping Fishes”, and the blackmail of a mysterious man who wants to marry the “fish blower” girl. Will Coke be able to free the girl ?
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Reefer Madness
Like many exploitation films of the time, “Reefer Madness” tried to make a quick buck off of a forbidden subject while skirting the Motion Picture Production Code of 1930. The Code forbade the portrayal of immoral acts like drug use. (The illegal drug traffic must not be portrayed in such a way as to stimulate curiosity concerning the use of, or traffic in, such drugs; nor shall scenes be approved which show the use of illegal drugs, or their effects, in detail.)
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See also…
Heroin in our Cornflakes?
Addiction: A New Definition
Why Does the Brain Prefer Opium to Broccoli?
Bath Salts Emerging as the New Recreational Drugs
How Hemp Got High
FILMS AND MUSIC
The Narcotic Farm
Bela Lugosi – Rare 1955 Interview with the First Celebrity to go Public with a Drug Addiction Problem
From Russia – Krocodil Drug that Eats Junkies (WARNING: Contains shocking images)
Films that Deal with the Subject of Addiction
Songs About Heroin
