Marihuana
by Dwain Esper
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Actor: Dorothy Dehn, Harley Wood, Hugh McArthur, Pat Carlyle, Paul EllisDirector: Dwain Esper
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 58 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-06-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Alpha Video
DVD Reviews of Marihuana
DVD Review: an old, campy film about the queen of the peddlers...
Summary: 3 Stars
Marijuana is not exactly the best film I've ever seen. It's a dated message film that drugs lead to nothing but trouble; and of course there is truth to that. Unfortunately, however, the film itself has too many problems to be good. The editing was poorly done; the acting is merely average; the casting is unconvincing (grown-ups playing teenagers?); and the cinematography leaves a lot to be desired. What's worse, the sound quality is so poor that at several times during the movie I couldn't understand what the actors were saying! There are other moments where the editing is so bad that sentences get cut off; and that's not good either. Therefore, this film is best suited for a light-hearted romp from what is now a rather campy old film, one that was meant to be serious back in the day but in retrospect looks silly and over-the top more than anything else. Some have even said that they produced this film to sneak in that scene of the nude women going out to swim in the ocean; and maybe that's true--but that moment is not enough to save the picture.
When the action starts, we meet several principle characters in the film: There's Burma Roberts aka 'Blondie' (Harley Wood); her sister Elaine (Dorothy Dehn) who is engaged to Morgan Stewart (Richard Erskine); Elaine and Burma's mother (Juanita Fletcher) and Burma's boyfriend Dick Collier (Hugh McArthur). Elaine and Morgan are leading the "straight and narrow life;" but Burma, Dick and their friends party pretty hard. Eventually Burma, Dick and their friends get mixed up with a couple of dope pushers named Tony Santello (Paul Ellis) and Nickolas 'Nicki' Romero (Pat Carlyle). The pushers succeed in getting the teenagers to buy marijuana--after all, we wouldn't have a film without that happening--and after that it's more and more trouble for Burma and Dick. Yes, it's horrible enough when one young woman dies after smoking marijuana and swimming too far out at sea; but when Burma becomes pregnant with Dick's child, Dick is in quite a jam to be able to offer financial security to Burma although he is willing to marry her.
And when Dick is killed in a shootout when a drug deal goes bad, Burma is in even more trouble. With help from Nick and Tony, she "gets away" to have her baby, Gloria--and little Gloria is adopted by Burma's own sister Elaine and her new husband Morgan! However, Burma doesn't know this; Nick and Tony keep this one under wraps.
Out on her own again, Burma must make choices. Will Nick and Tony entice her to make so much money that she can make her sister Elaine look like a charity case? Will Burma ever reconcile with her mother--and will she ever find out about Elaine and Morgan raising Gloria? Many newspaper headlines read that the dope pushers are too quick to be caught; will the cops ever find Nick and Tony? There's plenty of extra material here for you to watch; I'm not giving any spoilers.
Overall, Marijuana is far from perfect--quite far from perfect, in fact. However, if you want to watch a film that was designed to be so serious in its day that it looks positively campy today, this is for you. I personally could take it or leave it--and so I'll take an average of five stars (take it) and one star (leave it) and give it three stars. And it's a generous three stars at that. Oh, well!
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