The Pace That Kills

1935
PG
1h 8m

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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother and turns them into "cocaine fiends."A drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother and turns them into "cocaine fiends."A drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother and turns them into "cocaine fiends."

Director
- William A. O'Connor
Stars

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3,6/10

717

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Director
- William A. O'Connor
Stars

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Rôles principaux20

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Lois January

Jane Bradford - aka Lil

Noel Madison

Nick - The Pusher

Sheila Bromley

Fanny
(as Sheila Manners)

Dean Benton

Eddie Bradford

Lois Lindsay

Dorothy Farley

Charles Delaney

Dan - the Detective - Dorothy's Boyfriend
(as Chas. Delaney)

Eddie Phillips

Manager of Dead Rat Club

Frank Shannon

Mr. Farley

Fay Holden

Madame - Henchwoman
(as Gaby Fay)

Maury Peck

Master of Ceremonies

Nona Lee

Band Vocalist

Gay Sheridan

Dorothy's Friend

Frank Collins

Singing Waiter

Dick Botiller

Gangster
(uncredited)

Donald Kerr

Drunk in Nightclub
(uncredited)

Eva McKenzie

Mrs. Perkins
(uncredited)

Rose Plumer

Mrs. Grady - Landlady
(uncredited)

Hal Price

Bing - the Detective
(uncredited)

Histoire

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Le saviez-vous

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Anecdotes
When Fanny and Eddie go to the club, Fanny points out "Shirley Claire, the famous actress" and the shot is followed by two stock footage inserts from another film, showing a young man talking to a pretty young woman while seated at a table. This footage is actually from the original The Pace That Kills (1928), and the actress shown was the one who played the original Fanny. So essentially, in this scene, Fanny points to herself.

Gaffes
Late in the movie, the cocaine addicted brother gets the money to get his cocaine 'fix', and is next seen in a Chinese opium den having an opium pipe prepared for him. Cocaine and opium are unrelated drugs, and one will not satisfy an addiction to the other.

Citations
Fanny: Tonight I'm gonna take you on a sleigh ride with some snow birds.
Eddie: Sleigh ride? Snow birds? In summer?
Fanny: Gee, you ARE dumb!

Générique farfelu
Opening statement: Among the many evils against which society struggles, one of the most vicious is the traffic in dope . . in every community where the menace developes all the forces which society can mobilize, including social agencies, doctors, law enforcement officials and government band together to stamp it out . . . . . . Without such activity the dope evil would run rampant. Yet it has long been recognized that one other powerful force is necessary before the struggle can be completely successful. That force is an aroused and educated public awareness. It is in the hope of aiding in developing such awareness that this picture has been produced. What happens to Jane Bradford may happen to anyone. There will always be "Jane Bradfords" until you, Mr. Citizen, co-operate with the forces now fighting the dope evil to forever stamp it out in our land. --The Management.

Connexions
Edited into Confessions of a Vice Baron (1943)

Bandes originales
All I Want Is You
(uncredited)
Performed by Nona Lee

Commentaires des utilisateurs23

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Beware bad film quality!

If you've seen "Reefer Madness", you can skip "Cocaine Fiends/Pace That Kills". The same overblown scare tactics used in "Reefer Madness" are tried again here, but to limited success. At least "Madness" showed what marijuana looked like; cocaine is mentioned and abused but never actually shown. The same old plot of "good kids turned bad by dope" is re-hashed, but not as directly as in other films, so it gets talky when it shouldn't. The first taste of a drug apparently turns you into a monstrous irresponsible waste of humanity, or a "hop head" as the main character laments. Besides exaggerating consequences to the nth degree, "Fiends" has editing that makes you seasick. Characters simply vanish between film splices and cars appear out of nowhere. It's not funny, it's annoying. Although I'm not in favor of drug use at all, it's fun to see something subvert straightlaced black-and-white America. Anarchists will love this movie, but everyone else will find it rather dull.