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God Damn Don Powers · Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 590 Location: On the road.

On Friday night I was up all night watching this awesome series of movies / short propaganda films. TCM should do this every Friday night.

If you haven't seen "Blood Freak". . . it's a can't miss.

2:00am -- Blood Freak (1971)
Drugs turn a biker into a murderous beast.
Cast: Steve Hawkes
Dir: Brad F. Grinter
C-80 mins, TV-MA

The victim that gets his leg cut off by a table saw was an actual amputee.

3:30am -- Reefer Madness (1936)
Drug dealers lure a pair of young innocents into marijuana addiction.
Cast: Dorothy Short, Kenneth Craig, Lillian Miles, Dave O'Brian
Dir: Louis Gasnier
BW-65 mins, TV-14

If you still frame the newspaper which flashes on screen just before the verdict is announced at the end of the film, underneath the headline is another front-page news story which bears the smaller headline: DICK TRACY, G-MEN LEAD SUCCESSFUL RAID.

4:30am -- Short Film: The Terrible Truth (1951)
A juvenile court judge investigates the tragedy of marijuana addiction.
Cast: Judge William B. McKesson.
C-10 mins, TV-14

The judge comes to the "logical" conclusion that the drug problem in the U.S. was introduced by the godless Soviet Communists in an effort to "undermine morale" and that the way to stop the drug epidemic was to "use common sense" (an earlier version, apparently, of the Reagan-era "Just Say No!" campaign, and which had pretty much the same effect--i.e., none).

4:45am -- Short Film: Narcotics (1951)
A round-up of drug addicts reveals the perils of experimenting with marijuana.
Cast: Richard Elliot, Wes Robinson, John Young.
Dir: Dennis Sanders.
C-21 mins, TV-14

This film, which was actually made for narcotics officers and was not meant to be seen by the general public, shows the destructive effects of marijuana, which produces "unpredictable emotional results", and shows a (phony) round-up of drug addicts in downtown L.A.--the implication being, of course, that they all started out using marijuana.

5:15am -- Ask Me, Don't Tell Me (1961)
San Francisco gang members turn their lives around working in community service projects.
Cast: William Winters narrates, Stanley Mosk.
Dir: David Myers.
BW-22 mins, TV-14

Stanley Mosk was Attorney General of California during the filming of this short, and went on to become the longest serving justice on the California Supreme Court, for 37 years.

5:45am -- Short Film: The House in the Middle (1954)
Military tests demonstrate the dangers of poor home maintenance in the event of a nuclear attack.
C-12 mins, TV-PG

Slomgom_Commie · Posted: Thu May 21, 2009 8:04 am Post subject:

The house in the middle is hilarious. With all the clutter and junk in the front yard and the old peeling paint which attracts nuclear devastation more than clean houses.

gurkin · Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 2030

the terrible truth is hilarious.

Slomgom_Commie · Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 1:33 am Post subject:

I'm very afraid of The Weed after reading this thread.

verle · Joined: 23 Apr 2008 Posts: 572 Location: 2012

The should add Atomic Cafe.

sad poseur · Joined: 22 Sep 2003 Posts: 566 Location: Evanston, IL

TCM Underground is the new Night Flight.

No word on when Urgh! will appear.

God Damn Don Powers · Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 590 Location: On the road.

God Damn Don Powers · Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 590 Location: On the road.

Sweet. . .they're doing The Harder they Come with Jimmy Cliff this Friday night. 5/29