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A Japanese Pipe Dream

A Japanese Pipe Dream

1943
Documentary

When this propaganda film begins the narrator states that before the beginning of World War II, Japan was the only one of thirty-five nations to refuse to sign an anti-narcotics treaty and alleges that this was because the country's leaders planned to use drugs as a weapon of war.

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Production

U.S. Documentary Motion Picture Co.

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Earle Ross

Narrator

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