She Shoulda Said No! (1949)

Original title

Wild Weed

Directed by

Sam Newfield

Genre

drama film, crime film, exploitation film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 10m

Rated

NR

Rating

4.8 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman gets involved with marijuana and faces ruin. It was made to warn about the dangers of drugs.

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What happens

She Shoulda Said 'No'! (also known as Wild Weed; The Devil's Weed; Marijuana, the Devil's Weed; and The Story of Lila Leeds and Her Exposé of the Marijuana Racket) is a 1949 exploitation film that follows in the spirit of morality tales such as the 1936 films Reefer Madness and Marihuana. Directed by Sam Newfield (using the pseudonym "Sherman Scott") and starring Lila Leeds, it was originally produced to capitalize on the arrest of Leeds and Robert Mitchum on a charge of marijuana conspiracy. The film was issued under many titles; it struggled to find a distributor until film presenter Kroger Babb picked up the rights, reissuing it as The Story of Lila Leeds and Her Exposé of the Marijuana Racket. Its relative success came only after the promotional posters were redone and a story fabricated that the film was being presented in conjunction with the United States Treasury. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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