{"id":1762,"date":"2006-11-16T15:04:51","date_gmt":"2006-11-16T22:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1762"},"modified":"2021-01-18T01:06:11","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T08:06:11","slug":"cocaine-fiends-the-1936","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1762","title":{"rendered":"Cocaine Fiends, The (1935)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> &#8220;It&#8217;s too late for me; girls can&#8217;t come back.&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Cocaine-Fiends-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Cocaine-Fiends-Poster-199x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-64122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Cocaine-Fiends-Poster-199x300.png 199w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Cocaine-Fiends-Poster-85x128.png 85w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Cocaine-Fiends-Poster-179x270.png 179w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Cocaine-Fiends-Poster.png 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA small-town girl (Lois January) who has become hooked on cocaine tries to prevent her brother (Dean Benton) from following in her path.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alcoholism and Drug Addiction<\/li>\n<li>Siblings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nBest known as a companion piece to the infamously campy <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=3051\"><em>Reefer Madness<\/em> (1936)<\/a>, this film (as Peary notes) isn&#8217;t nearly &#8220;as blatantly exploitative or as foolish in its depiction of drug usage and addiction.&#8221; Indeed, the highly realistic possibility of naive young people becoming addicted to cocaine (<em>unlike <\/em>the histrionics over marijuana &#8220;addiction&#8221; flouted in <em>Reefer<\/em>) is scary enough to add some genuine tension to the proceedings. As Peary points out, however, <em>Cocaine Fiends<\/em> is primarily of interest for its &#8220;sad view of females in trouble in a cold-hearted, male-dominated world&#8221; &#8212; indeed, you&#8217;ll feel frustrated and dismayed by January&#8217;s utter lack of hope for a second chance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Redeeming Qualities and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A gritty, relatively realistic view of drug abuse and squalor in the 1930s <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Cocaine-Fiends-Squalor2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Cocaine-Fiends-Squalor2-1024x767.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-64123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Cocaine-Fiends-Squalor2-1024x767.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Cocaine-Fiends-Squalor2-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Cocaine-Fiends-Squalor2-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Cocaine-Fiends-Squalor2-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Cocaine-Fiends-Squalor2-360x270.png 360w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/Cocaine-Fiends-Squalor2.png 1237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo; though it&#8217;s &#8220;better&#8221; than its infamous counterpart, this one is not must see viewing. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0028074\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeout.com\/film\/69436.html\">Time Out Capsule Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s too late for me; girls can&#8217;t come back.&#8221; Synopsis: A small-town girl (Lois January) who has become hooked on cocaine tries to prevent her brother (Dean Benton) from following in her path. Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors: Alcoholism and Drug Addiction Siblings Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: Best known as a companion piece to the infamously campy Reefer Madness (1936), this film (as Peary notes) isn&#8217;t nearly &#8220;as blatantly exploitative or as foolish in its depiction of drug usage and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=1762\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64125,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions\/64125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}