COCAINE FIENDS / THE PACE THAT KILLS BLU-RAY

Kino Classics + Something Weird Present Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Picture Volume 16 - THE COCAINE FIENDS / THE PACE THAT KILLS!

      Senses Drowned in Forbidden Pleasures! A cocaine-snorting gangster (NOEL MADISON) lures a small-town waitress (THELMA DANIELS) to the big city, where a series of tragedies unfold. When her brother (DEAN BENTON) attempts to locate her, he falls into his own whirlpool of drugs and moral degradation. The Cocaine Fiends (1933) is a remake of the wildly successful 1928 silent film The Pace That Kills, which was the template for Reefer Madness, Marihuana and a host of 1930s drug scare films. Both films are presented here in new restorations, from the archival 35mm elements preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive (4K from the original camera negative) and the Library of Congress (2K from a seasoned 35mm print), and are presented in cooperation with Something Weird who is the custodian of the Sonney Amusement Enterprises Film Collection.

SPECIAL FEATURES

• Audio Commentary for The Cocaine Fiends (1935) by Eric Schaefer, author of Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!: A History of Exploitation Films
• Audio Commentary for The Pace That Kills (1928) by film historian Anthony Slide
• Alternate Opening Titles
• 1973 Re-Release Trailer
• Gallery of Exploitation Trailers