Tell Your Children
1938 · 66 MIN · IMDB 3.7 · 9,577 VOTES · DIR. Louis J. Gasnier
Overview
High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.
Dialogue Timeline — 590 lines
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00:03:28 ...must be stopped.
00:05:12 ''At the outset, there is one vital fact l would submit.
00:06:59 ''And more vicious, more dead/y
00:09:43 They know what they're doing, not like the young kids you bring here.
00:11:57 Glad to know you.
00:15:18 she hadn't added three heaping teaspoonfuls of olive oil.
00:16:55 l guess l'm all right. Bye! Bye!
00:18:33 Mary went home. Her mother wanted her to go to the dressmaker.
00:20:46 -Hiya, kids, how ya doing? -OK. Hiya, Mae.
00:23:45 -Swell. -Had to get a few more cartons.
00:26:24 Why don't you speak to Bill? He'll be honest, whatever it is.
00:28:33 A 16-year-old lad, apprehended in the act of staging a holdup.
00:30:17 lsn't it true that you have, perhaps unwillingly
00:34:02 Tell me... Did they...? Was the person killed?
00:37:57 Leave me alone! Oh, leave me alone!
00:42:02 A cop.
00:44:00 that he was under some severe stress
00:45:45 Any day now, that punk'll get hot.
00:47:57 Now, ladies and gentlemen, you've heard able men testify at this trial
00:49:55 We'll take a first vote.
00:53:41 Jack.
00:57:41 Yes!
01:00:30 l am. l am.
01:04:31 Your honor, the State waives trial of the defendant, Ralph Wiley...
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed590
Dialogue density8.9 lines / min
First line00:03:28
Final line01:04:31
Production Record
DirectorLouis J. Gasnier
LanguageEnglish
Budget$100,000
IMDb votes9,577