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Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (2003)

ALL 06/27/2003 (en) Documentary 91 Min
  • Release
    06/27/2003
  • Production
    Livin' Man Productions
  • Rotten tomato
    56%
  • Original title
    Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

This film covers the early history of post World War II educational films, especially those involving traffic safety by the Highway Safety Foundation under direction of Richard Wayman. In the name of promoting safe driving in teenagers, these films became notorious for their gory depiction of accidents to shock their audiences to make their point. The film also covers the role of safety films of this era, their effect on North American teenage culture, the struggle between idealism and lurid exploitation and how they reflected the larger society concerns of the time that adults projected onto their youth.

  1. Bret Wood

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor



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Casts

  1. John P. Butler

    Himself

  2. Earle Deems

    Himself

  3. John R. Domer

    Himself

  4. David Krug

    Himself

  5. Eric Krug

    Himself

  6. Rick Prelinger

    Himself

  7. Mike Vraney

    Himself

  8. James Waller

    Himself

  9. Bret Wood

    Himself

  10. Martin Yant

    Himself

  11. Helena Reckitt

    Narrator

  12. Richard Anderson

    Husband (archive footage)

  13. Sonny Bono

    Himself (archive footage)

  14. Hans Conried

    (archive footage)

  15. Ronald Reagan

    Himself (archive footage)

  16. Robert F. Simon

    Rellik (archive footage)

  17. James Stewart

    Narrator (archive footage)

  18. Dick York

    Nick (archive footage)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 18 , Crews : 6

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Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films (2003) 91 Min

ALL 06/27/2003 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 06/27/2003
  • Production
    Livin' Man Productions
  • Original title Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

This film covers the early history of post World War II educational films, especially those involving traffic safety by the Highway Safety Foundation under direction of Richard Wayman. In the name of promoting safe driving in teenagers, these films became notorious for their gory depiction of accidents to shock their audiences to make their point. The film also covers the role of safety films of this era, their effect on North American teenage culture, the struggle between idealism and lurid exploitation and how they reflected the larger society concerns of the time that adults projected onto their youth.

  1. Bret Wood

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Tommy Gibbons, Felicia Feaster, Bret Wood

    Producer



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