Tomorrow’s Children/Devils Harvest(1934)

Tomorrows Children

100% hysterical! This ancient cry for the end of forced sterilisation will have you bewildered, and laughing. The Board of Health wishes to streilise a family of nitwits. The parents are lazy boozehounds well past 70 years old, yet they have infant children! Their oldest daughter is up for the operation, but she’s normal wants to marry some nice guy, and have kids. Highlights include a courtroom scene where a judge decides if an insane young man is to be sterilised. We know he’s crackers cuz he has an Alfred E. Newman grin, has dark, wild raccoon eyes and giggles when he rips his nurse’s gown off! Then there’s a hospital scene where a Doctor uses kindly, almost baby talk to a tough Cagney-like gangster in explaining the sterilisation process. You won’t want to miss these hy-jinks!

70 minutes, B&W, 1934

Devil’s Harvest

Hilarious "anti-marijuana" film in the "Reefer Madness" mode. This is one of the worst in this genre, but it’s not without its share of unintentional laughs: a "dealer" has a hot dog stand and puts joints in the bun before selling them; there’s a night club in a storage building so threadbare that only Ed Wood Jr. could love it; and a cheap image of the devil is superimposed on the goings-on here and there. The acting is so bad one wonders if the cast was on — as they say in the movie — "loco weed" for real.

54 minutes, B&W, 1942