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This anti-drug educational film, "H: The Story of a Teen Age Drug Addict" was released by Young America Films. It is a black-and-white film from 1951, produced by Larry Frisch and enacted by a team of non-professional actors including Gene Fredericks, Ed Simms, and Norman Desser. The film portrays teenager Bill, who goes from being a high school student, part-time hardware store employee, and partner to his girlfriend Marilyn, to a high school dropout, boxer and heroin addict. The film is photographed by Maurice Constant and written, produced and directed by Larry Frisch.
Credits (00:08). “The Story of a Teen Age Drug Addict” title banner (00:15). Dr. Lester C. Spear, chairman of the New York County Medical Society Narcotics Committee, is introduced (00:24). He starts speaking of a case of a teenage drug addict (00:37). Credits (01:18). A teenage boy, Bill, is lying restlessly in a hospital bed (01:48). Bill is sitting with his girlfriend Marilyn (02:13). They start walking (02:37). Bill arrives home to his mother and they talk (02:48). He gets ready for school (03:33). He reads a note from his mother (03:52). He sits down and eats breakfast (04:00). An older student, Roy, hands a young boy drugs to sell (04:10). Roy tries to give Bill drugs in the locker room (04:36). Bill rejects Roy (05:02). Roy meets with a drug dealer, Moose, outside of school (05:09). Bill is working at a hardware store (05:36). Bill arrives at Marilyn’s house and talks to her mother in the door (06:04). Bill leaves (06:24). Bill is sitting at a table in a restaurant/bar (06:29). Roy joins him (06:33). Bill joins Roy for a party (06:48). Bill is introduced to Moose (06:59). Views of the party guests having fun (07:12). A guy starts talking to Bill and offers him a cigarette (07:31). Bill smokes from it, thinking it's a normal cigarette, but he starts to feel high (07:42). Bill punches the guy who offered him the cigarette (08:05). Roy pulls Bill away (08:10) and Moose looks at him (08:13). Moose and Bill walk into another room (08:19). Moose offers Bill money to become a fighter (08:32). Moose offers Bill another marijuana cigarette (09:19). Roy is selling drugs on the school campus (09:41). Bill and Marilyn argue in the park because Bill dropped out of school (10:01). Bill walks away (10:11). He smokes marijuana cigarettes in the park and his home (10:18). He trains in a gym (10:57). Bill’s mother packs a suitcase (11:24). Views of a party and Bill playing his instrument (11:36). Moose convinces Bill to try heroin (11:51). Views of Bill fighting in a boxing ring (12:33). Bill’s loses (12:47). A party (12:54). Bill stands by himself (12:58). He goes to the bathroom (13:11) and does heroin (13:32). Bill rejoins the party (13:42). He collapses and Moose catches him (14:01). He lays Bill on a couch (14:13), opens the windows (14:18), and attempts to revive Bill (14:23). Bill works at the hardware store (14:33). Bill visits Marilyn’s house, but there is a new family living there (14:50). Bill is pacing in his home (15:09). He holds a photograph of his mother (15:23). He takes his coat (15:32). Roy sells drugs to a guy (15:40). Bill meets Roy in a restaurant/bar (15:53). A party (16:15). Bill is lying restless in withdrawal (16:37). He climbs across the floor (16:48). Bill and two guys rob a man walking in the street (16:59). Bill’s mother discovers Bill shooting heroin (17:22). Bill suffers from withdrawal in a hospital bed (17:40). Two guys visit him (18:01). Bill walks in the street (18:55). He arrives home (19:23). He takes a spoon from a drawer (19:39). He prepares a shot of heroin (19:54). He sees Moose in his living room (20:18). Moose attacks Bill (20:29). Bill calls a social worker to receive help (21:25). “The End” text overlay (21:43).
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