Review of Maryjane

Maryjane (1968)
4/10
An entertaining bit of trash ssved by its audaciousness.
14 April 2022
Warning: Spoilers
Wow the plot of this anti-marijuana film has some elements of it that doesn't make sense, it's an entertaining, watchable film that is enjoyable simply because of how silly it all is and the dialogue that is so ridiculous that it seems that the writers were smoking what they were writing against. Some of the cast of the really bad "The Mini-Skirt Mob" (released the same year) join with Fabian and dramatizing the story of a high school plague with a pot problem. When Fabian is framed for pot possession, he has to set out to find who is responsible. He's a lot more liberable about pot usage Dan the faculty and administration of the school that are ridiculously pompous and out of touch with anything that affects people under the age of 50.

Diane McBain and Patty McCormack played sisters in "The Mini-skirt Mob" but don't share a scene in this. McBain is Fabian's love interest, and a twist about her character comes out of the blue. Like some of the 1930's anti-pot films, this completely exaggerates any kind of moderate usage, emphasized by the opening scene where two high teenagers speeding down the street hit someone who is killed, with the camera showing their bloody, battered body in a truly exploitive moment. The scene with the faculty and administration of the high school follows, and from there, it just gets more exploitive and a bit hypocritical considering other American International films on social drug use. The dialogue is hysterically bad, and that's probably a good thing because it makes the movie very entertaining in spite of how bad it is.
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