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Tell Your Children

Tell Your Children1938

★4.466 minDrama

High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.

Director

Louis J. Gasnier

Writer

Score

Hugo Riesenfeld Abe Meyer

Stars

Dorothy Short Kenneth Craig Lillian Miles

Cast32

Dorothy Short
as Mary
K
Kenneth Craig
as Bill
Lillian Miles
as Blanche
Dave O'Brien
as Ralph
Thelma White
as Mae
Carleton Young
as Jack
W
Warren McCollum
as Jimmy
P
Patricia Royale
as Agnes
Joseph Forte
as Dr. Carroll
H
Harry Harvey Jr.
as Junior
Richard Alexander
as Pete Daley (uncredited)
Bob Burns
as Juror (uncredited)
Lester Dorr
as Joe the Bartender (uncredited)
Phil Dunham
as Juror (uncredited)
Edward Earle
as FBI Investigator Mr. Wayne (uncredited)
Frank LaRue
as Bill's Lawyer (uncredited)
Edward LeSaint
as Judge (uncredited)
Mary MacLaren
as Mrs. Lane (uncredited)
Walter McGrail
as The Boss (uncredited)
E
Edmund Mortimer
as Henry Harper (uncredited)
Frank O'Connor
as Jury Foreman (uncredited)
William Royle
as Prosecuting Attorney (uncredited)
Marin Sais
as Mrs. Harper (uncredited)
Forrest Taylor
as Blanche's Lawyer (uncredited)
D
Dan Wolheim
as Pete Daley (uncredited)
J
James Ard
as Officer Chuckman (uncredited)
Nora Bush
as Juror (uncredited)
J
Jane Crowley
as Parent (uncredited)
A
Adabelle Driver
as Juror (uncredited)
K
Kay Garrett
as Parent (uncredited)
E
Eleanore Vogel
as Parent (uncredited)
T
Ted Wray
as Hot Fingers (uncredited)

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