The Narcotics Story

Name: The Narcotics Story
Director: Robert W. Larsen
Genre: Drama
Released: 1958-02-26
Rating: 5.1
Cast: Art Gilmore

1958 · 75 min · ★ 5.1 · Drama

Semi-documentary on how marijuana dealers lure small-town teenagers into heroin use and prostitution and how the police help to fight it.

Directed by Robert W. Larsen · Written by Roger Emerson Garris

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Art Gilmore Narrator (voice)

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