Marihuana (1936)
A young girl named Burma attends a beach party with her boyfriend and after she smokes marijuana with a bunch of other girls, she gets pregnant and another girl drowns while skinny dipping in the ocean. Burma and her boyfriend go to work for the pusher in order to make money so they can get married. However, during a drug deal her boyfriend is killed leaving Burma to fend for herself. Burma then becomes a major narcotics pusher in her own right after giving up her baby for adoption.
- Released
- 1936-05-08
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Runtime
- 57 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Dwain Esper
- TMDB rating
- 3.8/10 from 31 votes
Cast
- Harlene Wood as Burma Roberts aka 'Blondie'
- Hugh McArthur as Dick Collier
- Pat Carlyle as Nickolas 'Nicki' Romero
- Paul Ellis as Tony Santello
- Bill Woods as Detective
- Richard Erskine as Morgan Stewart
- Juanita Fletcher as Mrs. Roberts
- Gloria Browne as Gloria Stewart - The Child
- Symona Boniface as Helen
- Hal Taggart as Helen's Husband
- William C. Thompson as Waterfront-Raid Detective (uncredited)
- Dorothy Dehn