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The Marihuana Story

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The Marihuana Story
Theatrical release poster
Directed byLeón Klimovsky
Written byWilfredo Jiménez
Bernio Mason
Produced byCarmelo Vecchione
StarringPedro López Lagar and Fanny Navarro
CinematographyAlberto Etchebehere
Edited byJosé Serra
Music byJuan Lhert and Anatole Pietri
Release date
  • 27 September 1950 (1950-09-27)
Running time
98 minutes
CountryArgentina
LanguageSpanish

The Marihuana Story (Spanish: Marihuana) is a 1950 Argentine film directed by León Klimovsky. It was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

The film is about how the life of a respected surgeon progressively worsens after his wife, a marijuana addict, dies.[2]

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Production

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The relative financial success of the American exploitation film She Shoulda Said 'No'! (1949), a morality tale involving the use of marijuana, prompted producers in 1951 to import The Marihuana Story from Argentina.[3]

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References

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  1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Marihuana Story". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-01-13.
  2. ^ The Marihuana Story (1950) - Plot - IMDb. Retrieved 2024-11-04 – via www.imdb.com.
  3. ^ Eric, Schaefer (1999). Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!: A History of Exploitation Films, 1919–1959. Duke University Press. pp. 244–245. ISBN 0-8223-2374-5.
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