The Pace That Kills (New Line Cinema, R-1973) Alternate Title: The Cocaine Fiends Poster Reprint — 27" x 40"
Before midnight movies were cool, before “grindhouse” was a genre revival, there was The Pace That Kills — a 1930s exploitation shocker resurrected for a new generation in 1973 under the alternate title The Cocaine Fiends.
Directed by William A. O’Connor, and starring Lois January, Noel Madison, Sheila Bromley, Dean Benton, Lois Lindsay, Eddie Phillips, Frank Shannon, Fay Holden, Maury Peck, Nona Lee, Gay Sheridan, and Frank Collins, the film plays like a tabloid headline come to life — innocence corrupted, vice exposed, and redemption dangled just out of reach. It’s melodrama with a megaphone.
