Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films
Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films
Release: 2003-06-27
·Runtime: 91m
·★ 5.3
Documentary
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Livin' Man Productions
Cast
Robert F. Simon
as Rellik (archive footage)
Dick York
as Nick (archive footage)
Sonny Bono
as Self (archive footage)
James Stewart
as Narrator (archive footage)
Mike Vraney
as Self
Hans Conried
as Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
as Self (archive footage)
Richard Anderson
as Husband (archive footage)
