Assassin of Youth (1938) | Full Movie

Drama | Exploitation | USA | B&W | 74min Cast: Luana Walters, Arthur Gardner, Dorothy Short, Fay McKenzie A high-school girl gets involved with a ring of teenage marijuana smokers, and starts down the road to ruin. Journalist Art Brighton (Arthur Gardner) goes undercover to investigate the granddaughter of a recently deceased rich woman, killed in a drug-related car crash. The girl, Joan Barrie (Luana Walters), will inherit the fortune of her grandmother if she is able to fulfill a morals clause in the will. Joan's cousin Linda Clayton (Fay McKenzie) tries to frame Joan to acquire the fortune herself. Journalist Brighton tries to save Joan and expose the criminal gang of marijuana-dealing youths to which Linda belongs. While the newspaper tries to show the horrible dangers of marijuana to the general public, violence scales in the town in the form of obscene all-night drug parties where anything can happen.