Seduction of the Innocent

About

Sid's remake of The Terrible Truth is, in many ways, superior to it, if only because by the mid-sixties there were a lot more ways for kids to get themselves into trouble.

This is a warning about the path of casual drug usage leading to "the point of no return" and the user being permanently lost to society. Jeanette is introduced to drugs through her new boyfriend and casually pops pills for the first time. However, she rapidly progresses into more extreme forms of drug usage, smoking marijuana and shooting heroin. In order to support their habits Jeanette and her boyfriend begin to steal and her boyfriend is arrested. Left alone with her expensive drug habit, Jeanette turns to prostitution and is arrested, only to suffer in jail and land back on the streets with the same addictions until she dies.

A matter-of-fact detective/officer narrates:

"This is America in the second half of the twentieth century and Jeanette is a slave. Not a slave by circumstance of birth or force but by choice. A choice she made herself not so very long ago, a choice that at the time probably seemed no bigger than, 'should I belong or shouldn't I?'

The pace of modern teen-age society is often fast. The beat is sometimes frantic. Cultures and backgrounds have been mixed. The need to belong is ever present."

The camera zooms slowly in through the bars of a jail cell on a face of a young woman, writhing in agony.

A teenage pool party

Four teenagers riding in a convertible, popping pills, snapping their fingers to the music.

Close-up of a hand full of pills.

Close-up of a hand with pills and many other hands reaching in, some with quarters.

Teen-age couple climbing up a hillside to a car.

Teen-age boy pulls something out of his sock.

Archive

Internet Archive, in Prelinger Archives

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Credit

Davis (Sid) Productions

Subtitles

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