Death in Small Doses

Sep 15, 1957

1h 19m

★ 4.7

...the picture that crosses the forbidden territory...of THRILL PILLS!

Overview

A government agent investigates the use of illegal amphetamines among long-haul truck drivers.

Genres

Drama

Thriller

Crime

Production Companies

Allied Artists Pictures

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Cast

Agent / Tom Kaylor

Peter Graves

Valerie 'Val' Owens

Mala Powers

Mink Reynolds

Chuck Connors

Amy 'Miss Diesel of 1958' Phillips

Merry Anders

Wally Morse

Roy Engel

'Dunc' Clayton

Robert B. Williams

Steve Hummel / Mr. Brown

Harry Lauter

Payson

Pete Kooy

Lennie Owens

Robert Christopher

Gordon Armitage

Benjie Bancroft

Mabel (uncredited)

Claire Carleton

Long-haul driver Hannes picks up a young hitchhiker, Herb, who had a falling-out with his parents after dropping out of college and now travels around doing odd jobs. After a series of adventures, they are joined by Johanna and her child, who missed their bus and need a ride to Berlin. Johanna has left her husband so that he can reflect on their broken relationship and both men gradually begin to fall in love with her.

6.6

Moscow, Belgium

Jan 30, 2008

‘Moscou’ is a densely populated working class neighbourhood on the outskirts of Ghent, Belgium. Matty, mother of three, bumps her car into a truck on the parking lot of a supermarket. Johnny climbs down from the cabin. He is infuriated by the dent in his front bumper and yells at Matty. Although impressed by the accident, Matty fights back with sharp words. Their discussion turns into a row, and the police have to intervene. Matty goes home, the trunk of her car dancing up and down. Back in her apartment, Matty takes a hot bath to recover from the afternoon’s emotionswhen the phone rings. It’s Johnny, apologizing for his behaviour on the parking lot. Matty tells him to stay out of her life. A dramatic comedy begins about a woman whose soul is full of dents and bruises.

5.5

Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead

Jan 23, 2009

While driving to Las Vegas for the bachelor party of her sister Melissa and her fiance Bobby, Kayla stops the car at a gas station to meet her date, Nik, a guy she met on the internet. Nik convinces her to take a secondary road under the protest of Bobby but the car breaks down. They find a house in the middle of nowhere and decide to take the car parked in the house's garage to the next city...

6.9

They Drive by Night

Jul 26, 1940

Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.

5.3

Vacancy 2: The First Cut

Oct 24, 2008

Three young people check into the Meadow View Inn for a night's rest, fully unaware of the inn's sick-minded employees and their nefarious intentions.

5.4

Rest Stop

Oct 7, 2006

In Texas, the aspirant actress Nicole Carrow runs away home to Los Angeles with her boyfriend Jess Hilts. They drive through a shortcut in an old road, and when they park in a rest stop, Jess is abducted by the sadistic driver of an old yellow truck. Along the night, Nicole is threatened by the sick maniac, while mysterious things happen to her in the place.

0.0

Stoner's Night Out

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Presented by Voices in Society and Travelers Insurance Indemnity, this untitled PSA-style film from the 1970s is a compilation of various anti-drug use PSAs from National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Information (NCADI). The films were assembled by a film collector who did public screenings of cult films; he often showed this compilation under the moniker “Stoner’s Night Out”. NCADI is the information service for the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. The PSAs that comprise this film combine footage of drug use as well as interviews. Overall, this film warns of the short-term and long-term effects of drug use with the later segments of the film focusing on marijuana use specifically.

6.5

Joy Ride

Oct 5, 2001

Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.

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0.0

Trucker

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Upcoming Horror movie by Errol Sack

7.2

Thieves' Highway

Sep 20, 1949

Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his father was recently beaten and burglarized by mob-connected trucker Mike Figlia, and Nick resolves to get even. He partners with prostitute Rica, and together they go after Mike, all the while getting pulled further into the local crime underworld.

5.9

Trucker

Apr 24, 2008

Loner Diane Ford is a truck driver with an 11-year-old son, Peter, whom she never sees, and that's fine with her. But, when Peter's father, Len, falls ill, he asks Diane to take care of their son for a while. Eventually, Diane reluctantly agrees, but she quickly realizes that caring for a child interferes with her independent lifestyle - and Peter isn't all that thrilled with the arrangement, either.

4.7

Breaker! Breaker!

Apr 1, 1977

Truck driver searches for his brother, who has disappeared in a town run by a corrupt judge.

5.5

Reaper

Oct 6, 2014

Criminals and a beautiful but cunning hitchhiker must battle a supernatural force known as the Reaper.

6.5

Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk

Dec 13, 1935

Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to run it.

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0.0

Honeymoon

Nov 24, 2007

A newly married couple, en route to their honeymoon, stop at a service station in the middle of the night. When Zoran disappears to make a phone call and fails to return, Dawn begins to wonder just how well she knows her new husband.

7.1

Thanasis, Take Your Gun

Sep 28, 1972

A wretch jobber tries to find the money to build the house promised to groom, to repay the truck he drives and help a poor girl, who has been eviction, find somewhere to stay.

6.8

City for Conquest

Sep 21, 1940

The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York City. When Peggy, hoping for something better in life for both of them, breaks off her engagement to Danny, he sets out to be a championship boxer, while she becomes a dancer paired with a sleazy partner. Will tragedy reunite the former lovers?

5.8

The Thirteenth Hour

Feb 6, 1947

In this drama, a trucker's business is nearly destroyed after he is wrongfully accused of killing a policeman with whom he recently quarreled.

6.9

Out of the Blue

Apr 29, 1981

A young girl whose father is an ex-convict and whose mother is a junkie finds it difficult to conform and tries to find comfort in a quirky combination of Elvis and the punk scene.