Hop - The Devil's Brew (1916)

50m
Running Time

February 14, 1916
Release Date

Hop - The Devil's Brew

Hop - The Devil's Brew (1916)

50m
Running Time

February 14, 1916
Release Date

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Plot.

Lydia Jansen is happily married to a young customs inspector, but she harbors a dark secret. She is addicted to smoking opium or in slang parlance “hop.” To keep her secret, she willingly pays the blackmail her maid extorts from her having learned of Lydia’s habit through her own fiancée who is part of the ring importing the devil’s brew. Something unknown to all is that the operation is run by Lydia’s father an important politician in the city where this all occurs. As her husband’s investigation tightens the noose on the organization Lydia faces a crisis.

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Release Date
February 14, 1916

Status
Released

Running Time
50m

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This Movie Is About.

opium
smuggling
lost film

Wiki.

Hop, the Devil's Brew is a 1916 American silent film directed by Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley. Inspired by an exposé of opium trafficking in the Saturday Evening Post, the semidocumentary film starred Smalley as a Customs official and Weber as his opium-addicted wife.

The film is presumed lost.

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