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Director:
Bret Wood
Writer:
Bret Wood (writer)
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Tagline:
Educational! Controversial! Unforgettable! more
Plot:
The history of traffic safety educational films and their notoriously lurid content. full summary | add synopsis
User Comments:
Great topic, bad angle more

Cast

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Richard Anderson ... Husband (archive footage)
Sonny Bono ... Himself (archive footage)
John F. Butler ... Himself
Hans Conried ... (archive footage)
Earle Deems ... Himself (as Earle J. Deems)
John R. Domer ... Himself
David Krug ... Himself
Eric Krug ... Himself
Rick Prelinger ... Himself

Ronald Reagan ... Himself (archive footage)
Helena Reckitt ... Narrator (voice)
Robert F. Simon ... Rellik (archive footage)
Mike Vraney ... Himself
James Waller ... Himself
Bret Wood ... Himself
Martin Yant ... Himself
Dick York ... Nick (archive footage)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
91 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
Canada:13+ (Quebec)

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6 out of 11 people found the following comment useful:-
Great topic, bad angle, 5 July 2004
Author: shaffreytm from Hartford, CT

I was shown one of these scare films in the mid-80s and believe they are enormously effective. This documentary is about a fascinating topic, but it's point of view promotes the idea that the films don't work. I could not disagree more. After seeing the real result of speeding, or going through a stop sign in one of these films in a high school driver's ed class I drove MUCH more carefully as a teenager. Those bloody corpses smashed into the windshield are so disgusting I believe I'm still the cautious driver I am today because of them. THE TACTIC WORKS. We live in an era when corporate media and the government believe the public is too queasy to see our war dead from Iraq. And those are just coffins! The more informed we are about the real consequences of our actions the better off we are.

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