Death in Small Doses

Going way back to the days of my youth a 'benny' was short for benzedrine, one of those amphetamine laced pills you needed to keep awake. Kids took them to cram for finals and they were real popular with truck drivers making those long hauls in those big rigs. They can be mighty addictive.

In Death In Small Doses Peter Graves plays a narcotics cop who's given an assignment by his superior Robert Shayne to find out who's selling and distributing these pills which are causing the deaths of so many drivers.

This is a nicely done B noir film from Allied Artists and Graves gets some good support from two females in the cast with substantial roles. Mala Powers plays the landlady who has a boardinghouse catering to truckers where Graves stays and Merry Anders plays a hashhouse waitress.

Best support of all comes from Chuck Connors who plays an amphetamine addicted driver and he plays it broadly and to the max. He's also real terrifying when he freaks out.

Some good work was done by all the cast members in Death In Small Doses.