Small town girl Jane Bradford falls for Nick, a guy from the big city who offers her the opportunity to get away from her small town life. He also offers her "headache powder", she not knowing that it's cocaine and that Nick is a drug pusher.
Worth seeing for Virginia Roye, who (admittedly aided by skillful make-up) gives a marvelously shattering performance as the shopgirl who introduces our innocent hero, Eddie Bradley (well played by Owen Gorin), to drugs. Miss Roye made only four films.
Naive (and downright stupid) Jane Bradford lives out in the country and helps her mother run a diner. She meets slick talking Nick who's actually a drug pusher.
Cocaine Fiends, The (1935) BOMB (out of 4) A sweet, innocent young girl gets involved with a drug dealer who starts giving her "headache medicine" but what she doesn't know is that it's really cocaine. Here's yet another anti-drug film made to try and keep people off drugs but after sitting through a film like this you'll be frantically searching for your town's local drug dealer just so you can get high and hopefully kill some brain cells that will wipe out any memory of this film.
Also known as 'The Cocaine Fiends' this film is actually rather dull, and the quality of prints available for viewing now are fairly poor. The story of Jane Bradford's fall from grace after she takes a 'headache cure' isn't really that interesting, or played particularly well.
Drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl (Lois January) and her brother, and turns them into "cocaine fiends." The Alpha Video version has a poor video transfer, with the opening credits not even appearing on the screen completely.
Noel Madison made his movie debut along with James Cagney in "Sinner's Holiday" and from then on he was trapped - in the web of gangsters, henchmen and thugs!! He had started off on Broadway so differently, specializing in very sophisticated, upper class types.
I wish this movie rose to the level of entertaining camp. But it doesn't.
This matter-of-fact but straight-faced crime melodrama focuses on cocaine addiction. A brother and a sister from the country migrate to the city and discover the tragic consequences of cocaine abuse.
