The Marihuana Story (Marihuana)
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- Spain,
- Argentina
- 1950
- · 98m
Director
León Klimovsky
Cast
Pedro López Lagar,
Fanny Navarro,
Golde Flami,
Nathán Pinzón,
Eduardo Cuitiño,
Alberto de Mendoza
Genre
Drama,
Crime
The title of this Argentine film would seem to suggest an exploitive anti-drug tract. While it's true that Marihuana leans towards stridency and unsubtlety, it has a lot more going for than, say, Reefer Madness. Lopez Lagar plays a prominent surgeon whose pot-addict wife is murdered under sordid circumstances. Vowing revenge, the doctor ventures into Buenos Aires' drug subculture to find his wife's killer. He finds a few faithful friends along the way, notably a singer (Fanny Navarro) and a pianist (Nathan Pinzon). Unfortunately, the surgeon becomes the very thing he despises when he takes to the weed himself. The climax pits the good guys against the evil forces of a drug-dealer (Eduardo Cuitino) and his gang. Some intentional humor is provided by Hector Quintanilla as a goofy doper.
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