Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films

Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films

91 mins | Documentary | June 27, 2003

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.

Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films

91 mins | Documentary | June 27, 2003

Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films
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.
IMDb rating 7.0
Producers Livin' Man Productions
Original title Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films
Directors Bret Wood
Writers Bret Wood

Cast

John P. Butler

as Himself

Earle Deems

as Himself

John R. Domer

as Himself

David Krug

as Himself

Eric Krug

as Himself

Rick Prelinger

as Himself

Mike Vraney

as Himself

James Waller

as Himself

Bret Wood

as Himself

Martin Yant

as Himself

Helena Reckitt

as Narrator

Richard Anderson

as Husband (archive footage)

Sonny Bono

as Himself (archive footage)

Hans Conried

as (archive footage)

Ronald Reagan

as Himself (archive footage)

Robert F. Simon

as Rellik (archive footage)

James Stewart

as Narrator (archive footage)

Dick York

as Nick (archive footage)