Crashing the Movies

Crashing the Movies

8 mins | Comedy | Jan. 28, 1950

This Pete Smith Specialty short shows newsreel clips of people performing strange stunts. Among those featured are a motorcyclist driving through a pane of glass, a car being driven up a ramp and crashing on top of other cars, a human loop-the-loop, and a man who has a cannonball shot at his abdomen at close range.

Crashing the Movies

8 mins | Comedy | Jan. 28, 1950

Crashing the Movies
This Pete Smith Specialty short shows newsreel clips of people performing strange stunts. Among those featured are a motorcyclist driving through a pane of glass, a car being driven up a ramp and crashing on top of other cars, a human loop-the-loop, and a man who has a cannonball shot at his abdomen at close range.
IMDb rating 6.3
Producers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original title Crashing the Movies
Directors
Writers Joe Ansen

Cast

Pete Smith

as Narrator (voice)

Frank Richards

as Himself (as 'Cannonball' Richards)