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Cocaine Fiends
The Pace that Kills

USA 1935
produced by
Willis Kent Productions
directed by William A. O'Connor
starring Lois January, Noel Madison, Sheila Manners (= Sheila Bromley), Lois Lindsey, Eddie Phillips, Frank Shannon, Gaby Fay (= Fay Holden), Nona Lee

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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When country girl Jane (Lois January) helps gangster Nick (Noel Madison) to give the law a slip, he thanks her by introducing her to cocaine (claiming it's headache-powder), taking her to the big city & marrying her. But soon she realizes life in the big city is anything but heaven, as she soon has become a drug addicted laid-off gangster's moll (& is now called Lil, to fit her status).

Lil's brother Eddie (Dean Benton) has meanwhile come to the city himself, is working at a drive-in & intends to look for his sister in his spare time. But his co-worker, good natured Fanny (Sheila Manners), who has become enamoured of him, introduces him to cocaine, too, & so it's not long before they find themselves in the vicious circle of drug addiction, too: fired from their jobs & their respective lodging they have to stay at a cheap appartment, and - because jobs are scarce - Fanny soon has to take up a career in prostitution to be able to afford the cocaine for herself & her boyfriend. But when Fanny tells Eddie she's pregnant he loses his temper & leaves her in a rage to get high at an opium den. She loses no time & immediately kills herself.

Meanwhile gangster Nick has laid his eyes on Dorothy, daughter of rich Mister Farley (Frank Shannon) & loosely associated with the drug-taking cycles, & he abducts her in order to present his boss as a gift in order to ensure that man's trust and keep him from interfering with his own schemes.

Jane/Lil has in the meantime found her brother in the opium den & is planning to send him home to the country before he has to go the same road that she went. For that, though she needs money & wants to ask Nick for it. Instead of Nick, though she finds Dorothy, who promises her 1000 Dollars if she helps her escape. Seeing an  opportunity too good to let slip, she agrees & phones the police. As Nick arrives ahead of the police though & wants to interfere using brute force, she shoots him, 6 is soon arrested by the arriving police. Then the big boss of Nick arrives, to, to whom Dorothy was supposed to be presented as a sex slave, & he proves to be ... Dorothy's own father, who is promptly arrested too, of course.

& while Eddie has to find his girlfriend dead in his appartment, only Dorothy, who never really took cocaine despite her friends did, experiences a happy ending, since she has fallen in love with one of the cops who arrested her father.

 

Despite the movie being rather ridiculously simplistic & moralistic about drug use - it almost certainly leads to unemployment, prostitution, pre-marital pregnancy & suicide - Cocaine Fiends is not half bad, as some effort was put into storytelling & characterizations, which puts the movie above other anti-drugs movies of the same era (like Reefer Madness or Marihuana, Weed with Roots in Hell). At the same time, though, this movie is not as much of an unintentional laugh.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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