She Shoulda Said No!

She Shoulda Said 'No'!
Directed bySam Newfield
Screenplay byRichard H. Landau
Story byArthur Hoerl
Produced byKroger Babb
StarringAlan Baxter
Lyle Talbot
Lila Leeds
Michael Whalen
David Holt
Narrated byKnox Manning
CinematographyJack Greenhalgh
Edited byRichard C. Currier
Seth Larsen
Music byRaoul Kraushaar
Distributed byHygienic Productions
Modern Film Distributors
Release date
  • 1949 (1949)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

She Shoulda Said 'No'! (also known as Wild Weed; The Devil's Weed; Marijuana, the Devil's Weed; and The Story of Lila Leeds and Her Exposé of the Marijuana Racket) is a 1949 exploitation film that follows in the spirit of morality tales such as the 1936 films Reefer Madness and Marihuana. Directed by Sam Newfield (using the pseudonym "Sherman Scott") and starring Lila Leeds, it was originally produced to capitalize on the arrest of Leeds and Robert Mitchum on a charge of marijuana conspiracy.

The film was issued under many titles; it struggled to find a distributor until film presenter Kroger Babb picked up the rights, reissuing it as The Story of Lila Leeds and Her Exposé of the Marijuana Racket. Its relative success came only after the promotional posters were redone and a story fabricated that the film was being presented in conjunction with the United States Treasury.


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