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- DirectorLouis J. GasnierStarsDorothy ShortKenneth CraigLillian MilesCautionary tale that features a fictionalized take on marijuana use. A trio of drug dealers lead innocent teenagers to become addicted to "reefer" cigarettes by holding wild parties with jazz music.
- DirectorDavid ParkerThe dangers of LSD are driven home to teenagers in this classroom training film, which is "narrated" by an LSD tab. The "tab" tells kids that he is "a depth charge in the mind!" and various teenagers are shown babbling about their LSD experiences. "Experts" are presented who warn that LSD makes kids "paint themselves green" and has various other horrible side effects, the most serious of which is that it gives users a police record, and that there is "no known way of getting your fingerprints out of a police file once they're in there."
- DirectorMel MarshallStarsKevin TigheGerald LeRoyJulie ConnersIn this dark vision of drug use, a former classmate turned dealer seduces a high-school student into drug addiction.
- DirectorMax MillerStarsSal MineoJ. Thomas UngerleiderW. Ross AdeyDocumentary about the potentially dangerous and unpredictable drug LSD. Various experts discuss how LSD is made and the hazards involved in using it while avid users explain why they enjoy taking it.
- DirectorLee R. BobkerStarsMichael TolanDuke D. FisherKenneth E. GodfreyThis FDA film explores the history of hallucinogenic drugs, and specifically the effects and therapeutic uses of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD). Combining graphics that suggest a hallucinogenic experience, snippets of interviews with users (who explain their reasons for taking the drug) and doctors, and taped sessions of research with volunteers, the film delves into the destructive as well as possible positive uses of the drug.
- DirectorSid DavisExplains the dangers of LSD. Describes the immediate medical effects and long range health and social effects of the habit.
- DirectorMaury DexterStarsFabianDiane McBainKevin CoughlinA teacher trying to break up a local drug ring is framed and arrested for possession of marijuana.
- DirectorMax MillerStarsSonny BonoSonny Bono appears onscreen to tell kids that marijuana is a "bummer" that turns you into a "weedhead" and will make you "trip out" (the fact that, based upon his performance, Sonny appears to have ingested unknown substances before the cameras started rolling tends to limit the film's crediblity somewhat).
- DirectorØyvind VennerødStarsSigrid HuunLillebjørn NilsenGeorg RichterNorwegian propaganda film and cult drama about Eva (16) and Arne (17), both from the west end of Oslo, attend a class where a professor says that cannabis is safer than alcohol. Together with some friends they decide to try the drug.
- DirectorPaul Nagel Jr.StarsAnita BryantHolly DushkinShannon WallaceThis anti-drug film uses common childhood habits and activities, such as building a machine out of Lego blocks, to metaphorically illustrate the effects and dangers of drug abuse.
- A short educational film which documents the dangers of Barbiturate abuse.
- A short educational film which documents the dangers of Amphetamine abuse.
- StarsSonny BonoA young girl relates what happened during her first LSD trip, when--among other things--her food began talking to her.
- A short educational film which documents the dangers of Heroin abuse.
- DirectorIb MelchiorStarsJ. Edward McKinleyAn educational short film explaining the dangers of marijuana use via the story of a young man named Tom, his parents, and Tom's pot-smoking friends.
- DirectorLewis MilestoneStarsWard BondJoseph CrehanSamuel S. HindsDocumentary detailing the dangers and treatment of venereal disease. Tony Medroni is excited about the imminent birth of a son, but when the child is born dead, Tony must face the fact that his own sexual history has caused the child's death. A doctor explains the problem to Tony and discusses other cases with a colleague.
- StarsLorne GreeneThe short film reflects on young genders when back in the 50s social courting was considered sexual and led up to dating and intimacy.
- DirectorH. Haile ChaceStarsDolores FaithMory SchoolhouseCharlotte StewartA high-school track star's wedding plans are capsized by venereal disease and a bad, beautiful new girl in town. His coach and a physician steer him into the light again.
- DirectorGary GraverStarsConnie NelsonJohn AldermanCatherine HowardThe cautionary tale of 17-year-old Sherman Oaks high-schooler Pam Banner, who has a baby out of wedlock. The baby is adopted, but Pam's too embarrassed to return to school, so her dad gets her a job as receptionist for a talent agent. A rock star takes her to a party, seduces her, and abandons her. This starts her down a spiral of partying, free love, and drug use. She becomes friends with Jeannie, a hooker who supports Jimmy, a useless druggie. Soon the three of them are living together and Jimmy seems more and more appealing to Pam. She's missing work more and more often, Jeannie wants out of the life, Jimmy is going through withdrawal, and Pam is in the middle of a maelstrom. Is there any exit for Pam?
- DirectorAlbert H. KelleyStarsLewis SargentLilian BondRicca AllenA judge denies a divorce to a young couple with four children, and orders them to have no more children. The wife dies when she undergoes an illegal operation to sterilize her.
- DirectorAlbert H. KelleyStarsJoseph CrehanMarcia Mae JonesJean FenwickNaive small-town girl gets pregnant on her prom night, and winds up in the clutches of the local abortionist.
- DirectorHoward BrethertonStarsJoseph CrehanJohn ParkerWanda McKaySally and Bob have been married a year. She might be pregnant, so Dr. West picks up a test sample and tells them to come by in a week for the result. They recall problems they had just before marriage when they found out about each other's past (V.D. and pregnancy). Dr. West had helped them with good counsel and two films ("The Story of V.D." and "The Story of Reproduction"). A week later at his office he has good news and shows them another film, "The Story of Life." Dr. West wants them to know about modern medical science and to teach their kids the facts of life. The movie ends with a commercial for a new five-book-in-one, "The Mid-Century Marriage Guide."
- DirectorGeorge DunningAn animated safety film adapts the nursery rhyme "Three Blind Mice" into a song where the mice are factory workers who disregard safety rules and wind up injuring themselves.
- DirectorCyril FrankelStarsGwen WatfordPatrick AllenFelix AylmerIn Canada, a British schoolmaster meets official resistance when he learns that his 9-year-old daughter has been the victim of the pedophile patriarch of the town's most powerful family.
- DirectorPat JacksonStarsChristina GreggJanina FayeCyril RaymondAn innocent girl is "groomed" over the telephone and nearly becomes the victim of the attacker, only to put her younger sister's life in grave danger.
- DirectorBarry MahonStarsRita BennettUta EricksonLucky KargoA magician/hypnotist gets the idea that he can make more money (and have a better time) by starting a sex cult than by continuing his magic act, so he becomes Brother Eros whose motto is "Love is all that counts."
- DirectorRalph WeisingerStarsFlorrie FisherJoe GivenA former drug addict tells her story to some high school kids.
- DirectorDwain EsperStarsVivian McGillRose TapleyAl RigaliThis exploitation film belongs to the social guidance genre of quasi-documentary narratives, which exhort young adults to follow particular moral and social prescriptions related to sexuality and drug use.
- DirectorDwain EsperStarsHarley WoodHugh McArthurPat CarlyleA young girl slowly becomes a dope pusher.
- DirectorEdgar G. UlmerStarsDiane SinclairLyman WilliamsGeorge IrvingAn extramarital affair leads to a young couple contracting venereal disease.
- DirectorDwain EsperVival Sodar'tStarsHarry CordingJoan DixPatricia FarleyExploitation film which follows the downward spiral of an idealistic medical student whose fall from grace leads him to opium dens, a carnival freakshow, swanky drug parties, dingy brothels, and finally the barrel of his own revolver.
- DirectorDorothy DavenportMelville ShyerStarsHelen FosterNell O'DayGlen BolesA young girl gets involved with a crowd that smokes marijuana, drinks and has sex. She winds up an alcoholic, pregnant drug addict and is forced to get an abortion.
- DirectorRichard C. KahnStarsS. Dana HubbardMorgan WallaceLuana WaltersAn exploitation film about homosexuality. The film is believed to be lost. Elinor Gordon, who was frightened sexually by a man while an infant, confides in her psychoanalyst that she is contemplating yielding to the advances of her overly attentive and affectionate female roommate, Bobby Allen. The psychoanalyst advises the woman to dispossess her roommate, who works in the same law office as she, and to marry a football player. After the young woman rebuffs her roommate, she accompanies her lawyer employer, Dave Warren, to the country home of the firm's senior partner, John Grant. While Elinor falls in love with Dave, the senior partner's socialite daughter, Judy, yearns for Paul, an artist, who, unknown to her, is a homosexual.
- DirectorWilliam A. O'ConnorStarsLois JanuaryNoel MadisonSheila BromleyA drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother and turns them into "cocaine fiends."
- DirectorElmer CliftonStarsMartha ChapinWheeler OakmanBryant WashburnYoung girls are cheated in rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts.
- DirectorS. Roy LubyStarsWilly CastelloLona AndreCarleton YoungA district attorney goes after an illegal abortion ring that preys on desperate young girls.
- DirectorHerman E. WebberStarsConstance WorthWilly CastelloBlanche MehaffeyA hard-working woman trying to support her family and working at a menial, low-paying job falls for a low-life and before she knows it, he has her working as a prostitute in a bordello.
- DirectorDel FrazierStarsJack IngramAnn RossOlin FrancisThe crusading Dr. Kent tries to convince the district attorney to clean up the local abortion racket and help open a birth control clinic. But when Kent is dismissed from the hospital, the troubles actually begin.
- DirectorDwain EsperEarly "shockumentary", apparently shot in Egypt, which documents the habits of opium addicts. The interiors of drug dens are shown, and at the conclusion the film an addict is shown collapsing on a sand dune as the booming voice of the narrator announces that the addict has perished.
- DirectorWilliam A. O'ConnorStarsWilliam FarnumTom SantschiPatty Lou LyndA man's heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his little daughter.
- DirectorJack TownleyStarsJean LacyGlen BolesDonald KeithA young girl is being tried for murder. Her defense attorney attempts to show how her descent into a life of crime, prostitution and degradation was caused by her puritanical, religious fanatic mother.
- DirectorDwain EsperA young newlywed couple try to decide whether to live the high life or have their child.
- DirectorCrane WilburStarsDiane SinclairDonald DouglasJohn PrestonA young woman wishes to marry her boyfriend and raise a family, but because her own family has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities--her parents are lazy alcoholics who continue to have children, and her brothers are crippled, have mental problems or are jailed--she is ordered by a court to undergo sterilization so that her family's "defective genes" won't be passed on to any more children. Her boyfriend and a kind priest desperately search for a way to stop the forced sterilization before it's too late.
- DirectorPhil GoldstoneStarsPedro de CordobaPhyllis BarryDouglas WaltonA warning about the dangers of sexually-transmitted diseases, specifically syphilis.
- DirectorElmer CliftonStarsLona AndreDonald ReedWheeler OakmanBerrywood Roadhouse is a den of iniquity outside of town. Crooks use a beauty shop to recruit floozies into vice. The crooks target Dona Lee, who works at the beauty salon and is pursued by reporter wannabe Phillip as their next victim.
- DirectorMelville ShyerStarsWilly CastelloVeola VonnDean BentonA gang boss sees a new way to make money--kidnapping high school girls and forcing them to work in the brothels he owns.
- DirectorElmer CliftonStarsLuana WaltersArthur GardnerDorothy ShortA high-school girl gets involved with a ring of teenage marijuana smokers and starts down the road to ruin. A reporter poses as a soda jerk to infiltrate the gang of teen dope fiends.
- DirectorHarry RevierStarsShirley MillsBob BollingerWarner RichmondA schoolteacher in a rural community campaigns to stop the practice of older men marrying underage girls.
- DirectorFrank O'ConnorStarsRobert FiskeHelene LeBerthonArthur GardnerA wealthy young woman, racked with guilt because she wasn't there when her mother died, is so desperate to contact her that she gets involved with a phony mystic who promises to put her in touch with her mother's spirit, but who is really after her money. A reporter who loves the young woman sets out to expose the phony "psychic" for the charlatan he is.
- DirectorMelville ShyerStarsMary AinsleeBetty CompsonWilly CastelloA rich society mother hires a male escort, but he falls for her daughter instead. The mother-daughter conflict forces the daughter to run off to stay with a friend who is enslaved by a prostitution ring.
- DirectorPat CarlyleStarsCharles MauriceDon HirstDiane WinthropIn this vintage "adults-only" exploitationer, whiskey and fast cars lead an innocent young girl into a life of prostitution and murder.
- DirectorEdward KayeStarsBetty CompsonMargaret MarquisRobert KellardA pair of nightclub owners run a string of escort bureaus where men pay for the "companionship" of young women. The district attorney sends an undercover agent to infiltrate the bureaus.
- DirectorS. Roy LubyWilliam A. O'ConnorMelville ShyerStarsWilly CastelloLloyd IngrahamLona AndreOn the eve of his execution, a vice-rackets bigshot recalls his various exploits in crimes such as abortion and white slavery, in which he frequently operated under an alias.
- DirectorAlbert HermanStarsJune CarlsonFifi D'OrsayTeala LoringA town is shocked when a high school girl commits suicide. A reporter and a cop team up to investigate and find out exactly what is going on among the youth of the town.
- DirectorElmer CliftonLewis D. CollinsStarsJoy ReeseWarren BurrKay MorleyA young teen girl tries to get support for a 'milk-club' for peers while covering for her older sister who's got a crush on an older man with antisocial tendencies.
- DirectorAlexander ButlerStarsCampbell GullanMarjorie DayJ. Fisher WhiteA quack doctor 'cures' a victim of venereal disease, whose baby is later born infected.
- DirectorC.J. WilliamsStarsCaryl S. FlemingLeslie HuntWilliam JeffersonMotivated by his affliction with syphilis, a wealthy young man schemes to prevent a young country boy from making the same mistake he made. At the afflicted man's request, a reputable physician arranges for some hospital nurses to impersonate prostitutes and thus convince the boy that a visit to the brothel can result in him contracting of the dread disease.
- Exploitation film about the trials of a meek, henpecked middle-aged man who wants to look at undressed women.
- DirectorCrane WilburStarsNoreen NashDarryl HickmanTerry MooreA teenager involved in running from the police in his hot rod hits a car in a hit-and-run case where the victims turn out to be his mother and his best friend in another hot rod.
- DirectorW. Merle ConnellStarsDorothy DukeWilliam ThomasonTimothy FarrellA happily-married couple having no luck with starting their family finally discover that the husband is sterile. Their family doctor suggests that they think about artificial insemination, which at the time was considered to be quite scandalous.
- DirectorW. Merle ConnellStarsLita GreyWill CharlesWilliam ThomasonThe head of an illegal drug ring uses a women's health spa as a front for his sleeping-pill racket.
- DirectorSam NewfieldStarsLila LeedsAlan BaxterLyle TalbotA chorus girl's career is ruined and her brother is driven to suicide when she starts smoking marijuana.
- DirectorJoseph BestWar Office film warning soldiers of the dangers of contracting venereal disease.
- DirectorNorton S. ParkerStarsHelen FosterGrant WithersFlorence TurnerA controversial, low-budget drama about the life of a young teenage girl who goes down the "road to ruin." Sally is a 16-year-old New York City teen who, neglected by her parents, takes up smoking and drinking, engages in affairs with a series of older men, gets arrested by the police during a strip poker game, discovers after she's sent home that she is pregnant, and gets an illegal abortion. The words "The Wages of Sin is Death" appear inexpliably over her bed in fire.
- DirectorMary FieldBritish silent public health film from around 1930. The main protagonist fears he may have contracted venereal disease but is reluctant to seek the help of a Doctor. He attends a public seminar where five examples are given of sufferers who did not seek medical treatment or did not complete the medicinal treatment.
- This silent early 1930's educational film illustrates the need to be honest with children about human reproduction. Giving practical examples of explanations for children for infants to teenagers.
- DirectorMary FieldThe courtship rituals of animals and plants are compared to those of contemporary society, with educational and frequently humorous results.
- DirectorCrane WilburStarsHelen MacKellarMahlon HamiltonCecilia ParkerA biology teacher helps two teenagers who have strict and neglectful parents.
- A young man is warned by his older cousin, a hospital doctor, about the dangers of 'running with the fast set' and is taken on a tour of a hospital, where he is told about the effects on venereal disease on men, women and children. The need seek treatment and complete that treatment is emphasize. How will the 'Court of Public Opinion' find against our young protagonist?
- DirectorBrian SaltPart promotional, part educational 'British Social Hygiene Council' sponsored film is focused on the two main venereal diseases of the time, syphilis and gonorrhoea. The film takes the form of a lecturer type presentation and animated sequences. The Road to Health is presented largely as a moral one.
- DirectorHorace ShepherdStarsCyril ChamberlainJenny LairdAlfredo CampoliA solider returns home on leave from the war intent on marring his fiancée. A recent bereavement frustrates his plans. He finds solace with another woman, only to later find out his mistake.
- DirectorWilliam NighStarsLeon AmesLuana WaltersPamela BlakeA local health official tries to stop the spread of VD in a town.
- DirectorOtto BrowerJohn FordStarsRobert ConwayKenneth AlexanderRobert CornellSeveral servicemen relax by playing pool, but one of them goes off to spend time with a prostitute. Later, he discovers he has contracted a venereal disease. A graphic and frank presentation of the types and treatment of venereal disease follows.
- StarsTarry GreenTeenager Mary has strong physical yearnings for her boyfriend, so she asks her mother for advice on what she should do about said carnal cravings.
- DirectorJerry GrossStarsArlene FarberFrederick RiccioJulie AngeA new health teacher in a high school is nearly raped by drug-dealing students and is blamed when a student turns up pregnant.
- DirectorHerschell Gordon LewisStarsPamela RhaeBill RogersValedia HillA suburban high school teacher is fired from her job for teaching sex education. But she continues to give private sessions at her home to her former students leading to rumors and complications around town.
- DirectorAlexis NeveStarsPetra PerryMichael MaienSolvi StubingIn a prologue, Kolle talks with two scientists about whether the sexual revolution is yet to be stopped and whether "the pill spoils morality."
- DirectorErnst HofbauerStarsMonika DahlbergChristine SchuberthBrigitte HarrerA gynecologist describes seven cases of young girls between the ages of 15 and 18 who have encountered him in his practice.
- DirectorRob HouwerEberhard SchröderStarsDoris ArdenSybil DanningAstrid FrankThis movie chronicles several pregnant women on their quest to have an abortion. Some got pregnant by accident, others were raped. Sure to offend anti-abortionists, pro-lifers, feminists and chauvinists alike. The portions of the movie that deal with European folk remedies to pregnancy are especially interesting.
- DirectorJohn G. AvildsenStarsDick CarballoDevin GoldenbergZachary HainesA conservative community does not think that the sex drive is normal for their children.
- DirectorJohn G. AvildsenStarsSharon KentRichard MichaelsLuigi MastroianniA bored housewife starts hanging out in Greenwich VIllage, and gets involved with pot-smoking hippies and an Italian filmmaker.
- DirectorDwain Esper
- DirectorRobert CarlisleStarsWilliam BoyettHarold AgeeMrs. Harold AgeeOn the day young Alan receives his driver's license, Officer Hal Jackson visits the Dixon farm to sternly lecture the family on the dangers of carelessness at railroad crossings.
- StarsEdgar KennedyHenry HallEdgar Kennedy plays multiple roles showing how inconsiderate some drivers can be on the road.
- DirectorLeigh JasonStarsHarry LangdonMonte CollinsFred 'Snowflake' ToonesAfter a night of celebrating his upcoming wedding by going out partying with his buddies, a man finds that all the drinking he did is about to get him in a bunch of trouble.
- DirectorWilliam T. HurtzStarsVic PerrinDorothy ScottBill ScottThis Oscar-nominated documentary short is from the American Cancer Society. Ed ignores his car problems and then fixes it without using a good mechanic. He also ignores stomach problems. Will he go to a doctor? Is it cancer?
- DirectorAnthony RizzoStarsGeorge WinslowLeo M. Langlois IIIRay J. MauerInstructional short aimed at school-aged children of the early 1950s that combines animation and live-action footage with voice-over narration to explain what to do to increase their chances of surviving the blast from an atomic bomb.
- DirectorEdward L. CahnStarsSam FlintWilliam GouldJonathan HaleA man runs over a young couple on a deserted road, then leaves the scene and tries to cover up the incident.
- DirectorDavid MillerStarsDick PurcellJo Ann SayersRichard LaneIn this Crime Does Not Pay series entry, John Jones is an up and coming businessman who drinks too much but denies he has a problem. One day he mixes drinking and driving, and the tragic consequences hit very close to home.
- DirectorWill JasonStarsPete SmithDave O'BrienA short showing how carelessness and accidents can harm the war effort, and steps on how to avoid them.
- DirectorTerence FisherStarsDermot WalshSusan ShawBarry LettsFour people with very different backgrounds meet by chance at an English pub and gradually become carried away in an alcohol-lubricated bout of thrill-seeking (so far as that was possible in England in the late 1940s). When their spree gets out of hand, each person faces a moral choice with lasting consequences.
- DirectorJay BonafieldStarsDwight WeistA graphic presentation of facts concerning American roads, cars, and drivers. Describes the increased use of roads and highways and current programs designed to meet the need for an improved, adequate highway system.
- DirectorHerk HarveyStarsShelby StorckTeenagers at a party received news that a car driven by one a friend hit a pedestrian, and that a bottle was found in the car. This provokes a debate on drinking, with opinions ranging from it always being bad for everyone to it being something you should do to avoid looking like a square.
- DirectorHarold S. BucquetStarsEdwin MaxwellGeorge LynnMurray AlperPolice go after a fraud operation that stages automobile accidents to collect insurance money.
- DirectorFelix E. FeistStarsJanet BeecherClay ClementHoward HickmanThis entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on charity fraud. Two scam artists set themselves up as 'philanthropists' to help raise money for a local clinic, but the funds they raise never get to help the people who need it.
- DirectorHarold S. BucquetStarsLionel RoyceGeorge HoustonJohn WrayRacketeers muscle in on construction business, use inferior materials, make big profits and endanger the public safety.
- DirectorLeslie FentonStarsGeorge P. BreakstonDavid DurandNorman Phillips Jr.An entry in the "Crime Does Not Pay" series, it tells the true story of how a young man, ignored by his parents, gets into a gang and starts a crime spree which leads to murder.
- DirectorGustav MachatýStarsKenneth HowellLinda PerryWilliam BaileyIn this entry in the "Crime Does Not Pay" series, young Ann Stevens and "Windy" Brown, against the advice of both sets of parents, run away and get married as they yearn for "independence." It isn't long before they find that they can't make it on their own, and one grab of easy money soon leads them down the path of crime.
- DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsDick PurcellLenita LaneEgon BrecherAn episode in the "Crime Does Not Pay" series. Dave Miller, an aircraft plant worker, is actually selling secret bomber plans to foreign agents. United States Intelligence Department agents plan to trap him and the spies he works for.