Marihuana, motherhood & madness
Subtitle: three screenplays from the exploitation cinema of Dwain Esper
By: edited by Bret Wood ; Anthony Slide, consulting editor.
Contributors: Wood, Bret.; Slide, Anthony.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Motion picture plays.
Other titles: Marihuana, motherhood, and madness
Description: Marihuana, Motherhood & Madness features the complete shooting scripts of three Depression-era films directed by independent filmmaker Dwain Esper, prominent in the exploitation film industry for his daring, low-budget movies about taboo issues like sex, drugs, and insanity.

The screenplays included are Modern Motherhood (1934), a social commentary on liberal marriages, sexualy transmitted disease, and abortion; Maniac (1934), a treatise on mental illness delivered in a B-grade horror-movie format; and Marihuana: Weed with Roots in Hell (1936), a "drug scare" film in which a few puffs set an innocent high-school girl on a downward spiral to become a heroin-addicted, drug-pushing kidnapper.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Filmography: p. [223]-226.
Table of contents: title: Modern motherhood; title: Maniac; title: Marihuana.