She Shoulda Said 'No'! | |
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Directed by | Sam Newfield |
Screenplay by | Richard H. Landau |
Story by | Arthur Hoerl |
Produced by | Kroger Babb |
Starring | Alan Baxter Lyle Talbot Lila Leeds Michael Whalen David Holt |
Narrated by | Knox Manning |
Cinematography | Jack Greenhalgh |
Edited by | Richard C. Currier Seth Larsen |
Music by | Raoul Kraushaar |
Distributed by | Hygienic Productions Modern Film Distributors |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
She Shoulda Said 'No'! (also known as Wild Weed; The Devil's Weed; Marijuana, the Devil's Weed; and The Story of Lila Leeds and Her Exposé of the Marijuana Racket) is a 1949 exploitation film that follows in the spirit of morality tales such as the 1936 films Reefer Madness and Marihuana. Directed by Sam Newfield (using the pseudonym "Sherman Scott") and starring Lila Leeds, it was originally produced to capitalize on the arrest of Leeds and Robert Mitchum on a charge of marijuana conspiracy.
The film was issued under many titles; it struggled to find a distributor until film presenter Kroger Babb picked up the rights, reissuing it as The Story of Lila Leeds and Her Exposé of the Marijuana Racket. Its relative success came only after the promotional posters were redone and a story fabricated that the film was being presented in conjunction with the United States Treasury.