The Cocaine Fiends
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Movie Reviews of The Cocaine Fiends
Movie Review: Fascinating Antique of '30s druggies!
Summary: 5 Stars
I was fascinated by this low-budget effort to portray a story in which the usual innocents are lured into a life of depravity and drug addiction. My Alpha copy was often so scarred and battered and dark that it actually enhanced the ambiance of dreary hopeliness for the main characters. A game cast tries to buoy this effort up despite the low-budget sets and budget. The best scenes are shot at the Dead Rat Bar where we're entertained by two long-gone and forgotten vocalists who were probably on the fringes of Hollywood anyway. Another good sequence is the Opium Den where a drug-crazed sister finds her drug-crazed brother who, like her, has become "a hop-head." The performers do an outstanding job trying to delineate their roles and the passage of nearly 70 years makes you wonder whatever became of them and the making of this film. For instance, how were they chosen to be in the cast, who did their wardrobes, what did they discuss between scenes, what did they do after work? This movie follows the tradition of "Reefer Madness" and "Marijuana", providing us with a glimpse of what our great-grandparents may have watched at the Bijou during those early days of the 30s.Movie Review: The endless War on Drugs
Summary: 5 Stars
There are certain people who love and collect these government sponsored movies from the 1930's. 'Reefer Madness' is the most famous of these ridiculous pictires, but there are other very good ones, Cocaine Fiends is one of them. All the plots in these movies are the same. A good person (usually a young female) is steered off the wayward path by a slick talking hustler with drugs to sell.
In Cocaine Fiends a young girl who runs a restaurant with her mother makes the mistake of hiding a 'dope peddler' from federal agents after a car chase. He offers her some 'headache powder' after the coast is clear. Next thing you know he's telling her she needs to be in the big city and can be in a show. Well her life goes pretty much downhill from there after she becomes a full blown cokehead.
These films are enjoyable for me. I find it odd how the 'Good ol' days' and 'Those Simple Times of Yesteryear', were as dangerous and decadant as today.
Movie Review: One Of The Better Exploitation Films Of The 30's
Summary: 4 Stars
Jane Bradford is a small town girl lured into a life of big city vice by dope dealing mobster Nick. Jane's brother Eddie comes to the city to look for her. But soon he too is seduced into drug use by his coke sniffing girlfriend Fanny. A third subplot involves a rich party girl named Dorothy who likes to hang with the bad boys at the Dead Rat Cafe. In the end, Nick "gets his" though what happens to Jane and Eddie is left up in the air.
This drug related exploitation film differs from "Reefer Madness" in many aspects. For one, the potential perils of cocaine use, such as addiction, job loss and financial downturn, are depicted somewhat more realistically though still melodramatically. What makes "Reefer Madness" so hilarious is how it exagerrates the effects of weed on human behavior to the point of absurdity. But here coke is shown only to cause a rapid, intensely pleasurable high that, at first, seems relatively harmless. The negative effects are shown to be related to addiction and social stigma rather than how it makes a person behave. The result is that the movie is less funny and perhaps less entertaining, but generally more realistic.
Of course, the acting, editing, script and overall film quality is laughable, as is typical of the exploitation films of the era. But I liked how the movie touched on controversial themes such as the gap between rich and poor, the dangers of illegal abortion and the double standards for men and women. It's an interesting social artifact and fans of the genre will likely appreciate it.
Movie Review: Good if you like Bad!
Summary: 4 Stars
This flick was a decent attempt for a low budget film. The acting was bad but not terrible. Interesting to me was that they wouldn't show anyone actually snorting the drug. They would pan away when someone was taking a snort. I guess they didn't want younger viewers to learn anything about the How-To part of doing drugs. The ending left a lot of loose ends dangling but whatcha gonna do?Movie Review: Great
Summary: 4 Stars
Ok the movie is excelent everybody is taking cocaine all the time. The girls are hoot and have good asses.... well the end is not that good cause everybody runs out of cocaine and they kill each other.... u know
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