Tell Your Children poster

Movie · 1938

Tell Your Children

Released 15 June 1938 More from 1938 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

High-school principal Dr. Alfred Carroll relates to an audience of parents that marijuana can have devastating effects on teens: a drug supplier entices several restless teens, Mary and Jimmy Lane, sister and brother, and Bill, Mary's boyfriend, into frequenting a reefer house. Gradually, Bill and Jimmy are drawn into smoking dope, which affects their family lives.

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How old were they?

Oldest first
Edward LeSaint
as Judge (uncredited)
67
Edward Earle
as FBI Investigator Mr. Wayne (uncredited)
55
Forrest Taylor
as Blanche's Lawyer (uncredited)
54
Richard Alexander
as Pete Daley (uncredited)
35
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The numbers

Computed from the cast above
32years between the oldest and youngest billed
67Edward LeSaint — oldest on the call sheet
35Richard Alexander — youngest billed
53average age of the credited cast
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