Tell Your Children

Tell Your Children

Drama | June 15, 1938

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.

Tell Your Children

Drama | June 15, 1938

Tell Your Children
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.
IMDb rating 3.7
Producers George A. Hirliman Productions
Original title Tell Your Children
Directors Louis J. Gasnier
Writers Lawrence Meade, Arthur Hoerl

Cast

Dorothy Short

as Mary

Kenneth Craig

as Bill

Lillian Miles

as Blanche

Dave O'Brien

as Ralph

Thelma White

as Mae

Carleton Young

as Jack

Warren McCollum

as Jimmy

Patricia Royale

as Agnes

Joseph Forte

as Dr. Carroll

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)

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)

Dan Wolheim

as Pete Daley (uncredited)