And Then There Were Four (1950)

[@deliveryguyrx]

I saw this one in drivers ed, circa 1975.I remembered the guy with the old truck , the slickster salesman and the kid with the hot rod.Back in the day we called these types of movies 'funny films', but looking at these forty-plus years later I am watching these with a renewed respect and level of interest.Drive safe out there,guys and gals!

[@InfiniteFacts18]

God loves us all so much that he gave his perfect son to die for our sins and raised him from the grave to defeat death. Through faith in JESUS we can be saved and reconciled to GOD. please repent🙏♥️

[@jaminova_1969]

Thank You for posting this film! I so love hear Jimmy Stewart narrate!

[@Edward-bd8iy]

"Well, you know what they say... You just can't keep those Bailey's down!"

[@jaminova_1969]

My high school eliminated firearms safety, shop classes and Drivers ED by the time I sophomore. I did manage to take a class offered by an insurance company that lowered my parents insurance. I'm sure films like this helped and probably need to be show today!

[@VintageVaughnVehiclces]

Probably because they couldn't teach it in Spanish and English.

[@Edward-bd8iy]

They had to eliminate those things to get the budget for the CRT and LGBTQ+ programs. LOL...NOT!!

[@InfiniteFacts18]

God loves us all so much that he gave his perfect son to die for our sins and raised him from the grave to defeat death. Through faith in JESUS we can be saved and reconciled to GOD. please repent🙏♥️

[@EricJamesHanson]

there needs to be a today version of this exact film made, and then shown everywhere to everyone!

[@101Volts]

Biblical proportions are required for the "tough guys" though.

[@pcno2832]

A while back, I accidentally did a Google image search that turned up a bunch of car accident victims with smashed-in faces. It two weeks to get them out of my mind and I never want to see them again. But, I can't understand whey cops don't hand out photos like that when issuing a ticket. They should also be shown in most driver's education classes (mine had pictures of car wrecks, but they were tame compared to these). They are disturbing, but I'd count them among a number of things that have made me more cautious about driving and other potentially dangerous activities than I was when I was more reckless and assumed my luck would never run out.

[@verifeli]

@@pcno2832 Nah,even putting photos of body that is broken by cancer in cigarettes won't even reduce smokers.

[@adamschrader328]

@@verifeli Same with drinkers and druggies, It is tragic when the kids that never even smoked get cancer.

[@whofandb]

Make 5 versions with each one of the 5 people dying. Then no one could say "I saw it before."

[@Goldenrod636]

It feels weird watching old videos. Like a look into the window of the past

[@friendofdorothy9376]

What makes me sad is knowing a lot of people in the videos I watch have died. Like old What’s My Line episodes. I often say to myself that I hope they had a long life filled with love and happiness.

[@johna.4334]

@@draidt lol !

[@Edward-bd8iy]

​@@friendofdorothy9376Arlene Frances was one of my first crushes. Ohh, that voice! And she always dressed pretty. Alas, I was only 8 or 9...but I knew what I Iiked in a grown woman...

[@Frenite]

This video is still relevant today. This should be shown in all drivers ed classes.

[@heathershimamoto121]

I know I'm a bit late to the game, but I agree. I remember watching a slightly more recent version of a 'red asphalt' type of film (probably filmed in the late 80s/early 90s) when I was in HS, back in the early 2000s. In our case, the film shown was actual investigative footage of a real crash that had occurred, and it openly showed the bodies, though it didn't show their faces. The message was mainly about what happens to you if you drink & drive (texting wasn't a thing yet). I remember being shocked by the condition of the bodies & what happens when you hit get ejected at high speed, but I don't think the rest of the class was as affected. I wonder if it would have made more of a difference for them, had the film been more like this. Maybe it would have, if they could have seen how their actions affect more than just themselves. Kids today might need a more 'updated' version of the film so they're not laughing at how old the video is, but they really need to understand how relevant it still is today. Cars, road layout, laws, and technology have changed, but the basic human has not. Many of us have committed multiple minor violations (I know I have, even when trying not to). Problem is, it's only a minor violation until someone else gets in the way.

[@jaminova_1969]

I don't think they teach drivers ed these days.

[@mistertraveler71930]

I remember movies like this in Driver's Ed in the early 60's. Then, they also had movies of car wrecks with cars that were mangled beyond belief. It stuck with me. I wonder how many others of my age remembered them.

[@101Volts]

+mistertraveler71930 I'm not one of them, I was born in 1991. I do like going through these old films though, and I have seen "Signal 30" and "Wheels of Tragedy" which are two of the mangled body type films.

[@b3j8]

You'd be surprised. When you see something like that without being censored, with real life outcomes... you're right it sticks with you. Thousands of kids went on to live a long life because of what they saw in these films.

[@welchshahan714]

DO YOU REMEMBER SIGNAL 30?

[@bobby-ry1ze]

even in the mid 80's me too, now my daughters say no

[@katieducky23]

My generation got one where a girl was texting and driving. She crashed and got a fence through her face. It Stuck with me. 😣

[@ctranger]

I recall seeing this movie in driving school in the mid-1960s. Made quite an impression. Kinda sad also but would certainly make a new driver think about using care and caution when behind the wheel.

[@sharkkakirde1]

This film is so important even up to this day.

[@supremelywhite8793]

Boy, these kids can't get a break!

[@LilouViviKiani]

Love these videos. We really are not taught how to live nowadays 😅.

[@Kyntteri]

$25 in 1950 is roughly $270 in 2020. Accumulated infaltion rate about 970% in 70 years.

[@adamschrader328]

Fiat money value never increases. Imagine if they had been paid in Gold.

[@Edward-bd8iy]

Between 1993 and 2010, prices for food, fuel, utilities etc. generally doubled. The majority of that increase came after fall 2006 and was still climbing after 2010. Oh...that coincides with Pelosi, Reed, Obama/Biden all being voted to power. Yeah. Keep voting Democrat, Einstein!

[@Modeltnick]

Such a sad ending. Unfortunately, this scenario still plays out today, 70 years later.

[@jamescalifornia2964]

The exception is today people do not dress as nicely 😪

[@Romiedahomie415]

And this is why this video is still relevant today because people do not pay attention

[@Edward-bd8iy]

... and today, those children will be shipped out to different 'foster care' hellholes and/or sold into sex slavery or worse...

[@brianferrell7656]

I keep stopping this film every time they show the young girl, and the little boy waiting for their mom. I really think the little boy is the same child actor that played the youngest son of George Bailey in "Its a wonderful life". Does anyone else see it, or just me?

[@101Volts]

Narrated by James Stewart.... That same James Stewart from "Harvey" and "It's A Wonderful Life"? Yep, it's him.

[@PhaQ2]

+Austin Lucas Yeah, could picture his mug the whole time.

[@richardgoldman8761]

Jimmy Stewart

[@johnbockelie3899]

The doctor became the hit of the class.

[@johnbockelie3899]

A few days in jail, or a few days in school, I'll take jail.

[@Scooteroy]

6:50 back when getting only a diploma didn't make you an idiot

[@geoben1810]

Cars can practically drive themselves today but the same jackoffs are behind the wheel. 😲

[@mxferro]

Hell yeah!!!!...high boy deuce parked outside a ranch style house in 1950s...give me that compared to 2019. Kid at intersection....future business executive.

[@Edward-bd8iy]

"She's my little deuce coupe You don't know what I got...."

[@marcfield1234]

Just think. "It was only a minor violation." It always is.

[@mohammedalhoshan4279]

18:21 her voice made very sad : (

[@bobbyheffley4955]

The most dangerous part of a car is the nut behind the wheel.

[@writereducator]

Today everybody would be texting.

[@johnbockelie3899]

Those reckless 50's.drivers !!!.

[@johnbockelie3899]

70 yrs later, and we still drive like this. 1950-2020. 70 years.

[@johnbockelie3899]

Son, your hot rod is gonna drive me to drinking if you don't get rid of it !!.

[@joestihl2234]

check the black oil slick in the middle of the roadway caused from the old draught type"walking stick"crankcase ventilation tubes!little rain on those old cross ply tires or be riding a motorcycle and its a life gambling ride,theres a lot to said for modern emission controls,postive crankcase ventilation was a good start in this case.

[@styldsteel1]

I suppose, but even without all those modern advancements, we're still all here, right?

[@mmarciniak]

styldsteel1 What’s your point?

[@-oiiio-3993]

Road draft tubes.

[@valescibar8631]

great video i remember when driving was a important deal now people are so selfless

[@thomaspierce9458]

Am sure you mean "selfish", not selfless. (When people are selfless, they are giving of themselves.)

[@Sashazur]

@@thomaspierce9458Yep, “selfless” is basically the opposite of “selfish”.

[@robinmariasmith1237]

Boy that girl will have to grow up fast so sad and to think that her mother almost forgot to kiss her good bye

[@szqsk8]

I never saw any movies like these when I had drivers Ed in high school back in the mid-70s.

[@johna.4334]

What? You never saw 'Red Asphalt'? I saw it in driver's ed back in `73. You must live a sheltered life.

[@scotquest12]

thanks JImmy.

[@jackjohnson7396]

Great era! 👍

[@egmjag]

Some scenes were filmed around Studio City, streets near the Hollywierd Bowl, and West L.A. 4:48 to 5:18 is probably one of the houses that no longer exists in Rowland Heights on Aguiro St., off Fullerton Rd.

[@smadaf]

The purchasing power of $25 in 1950 was equivalent to that of $321.91 in 2024. Neither amount will get you anything if you're dead from a car-crash, and no amount of money in the world will fill the hole you and others will feel if you kill someone on the road.

[@fromthesidelines]

For television, Roland Reed also produced Stu Erwin's "TROUBLE WITH FATHER", "THE BEULAH SHOW", "MY LITTLE MARGIE", "ROCKY JONES- SPACE RANGER" and "WATERFRONT".

[@grochomarx2002]

General Stewart had a great voice for this sort of thing.

[@sara_._paula]

​@@grochomarx2002Auto correct certainly elevated Jimmy Stewart by making him GENERAL Stewart! With that ending I needed a laugh😅

[@ericwent4931]

19:31: "I'll have to call you back later. Something's burning on the stove." Your pants, perhaps? Movie trivia: the sad-eyed girl is played by Sharon McManus, who shared a dance with Gene Kelly in 1945's "Anchors Aweigh."

[@tadonplane8265]

She sure did a great job with her “sad look”. She made me choke back!

[@Edward-bd8iy]

@19:31--"Liar liar, pants on fire..." The Castaways

[@smashthemachine3746]

the last scene is absolutely heartbreaking.....

[@viniciusvalois2634]

So it was the mother of the girl who died in the accident...

[@smashthemachine3746]

@@viniciusvalois2634 yes

[@viniciusvalois2634]

@@smashthemachine3746, and I can suppose that couple of neighbours of theirs were the culprit of the fatal accident.

[@tadonplane8265]

I watched this because I’m a big fan of Jimmy Stewart. But I didn’t expect to be so effected by a safety film.

[@Edward-bd8iy]

It got better for the kids, older sister called Morgan and Morgan. Pound Law, that's all!

[@bobt5778]

24:56 That's Richard Anderson isn't it? TV actor with a long career.

[@salemthecat7260]

I'm 19 min in and the suspense is killing me.

[@jamesflores9456]

wait joe was driving around with a bag of fertilizer on his fender...times have changed

[@-oiiio-3993]

@jason9022 You're not just blowing smoke. Note the 'Bandini' brand on the sacks - research Bandini Mountain. The aroma drifted for miles.

[@-oiiio-3993]

@jason9022 Good shit, though. A landscaper friend of mine bought it by the truckload.

[@gearjammer4779]

Ahh Christmas! Ahh Heck!

[@crippleguy415]

You never know when your appointment with death will be scheduled . 😔

[@bry4950]

I wonder if films like this are shown today in high schools. Today there are more drivers than ever and they are no better. In the Albuquerque area there are many inconsiderate and plain rude drivers. Excessive lane changing and following too close are common.

[@02chevyguy]

Movies like this are worthless in this era. All the kids will do is make fun of them. Same goes with the bloody accident movies most of us were exposed to in the 60's and 70's in drivers ed.

[@101Volts]

+02chevyguy Nah, not worthless by in large; I watch them and enjoy them. A lot of people though, they'll need to get a head injury before they'll listen... Sorry.

[@mikeymystery1713]

+silverbird58 It's a sad fact that kids and many adults from the 80's didn't get the message because seeing such films is graphic. You know in many places, they can opt out of anything offensive. They can't handle it when it happens because they weren't made to prepare. I've been first up on several crashes, and it's amazing how many people will nearly kill you by trying to pass the scene and not detour, in a hurry or just nosy. They've never seen the frantic efforts to save life, or seen a charred body that didn't beat the train, or the mangled child who got hit by a speeder in a residential street. Such narrative films make you think. And with all the mandatory "safety" equipment, we make more inept drivers. Bright lights that blind other drivers, signal lights that can't be seen in daylight, abs that prevents cadence skid stops, cars so comfortable that speed goes unnoticed, anarchy on the roads. I miss those mandatory classes.

[@jamesflores9456]

nope there may be a rule stating that schools cant teach common sense if parents dont approve

[@jamesflores9456]

i will admit that turntable reaction time jig would be beneficial in todays socioty

[@jguerrero447]

(4:40) Kissing in public? Good heavens. What is this world coming to?

[@Edward-bd8iy]

And between a MAN and a WOMAN????!! What FREAKS!!!!

[@coolyajets8638]

Peggy was texting - and the Doc was hooting - nothing changed

[@welchshahan714]

IF THEY SHOWED THIS IN DRIVERS ED NOW NOBODY WOULD BE WATCHING,THE KIDS WOULD BE TEXTING, OR LAUGHING, UNTILTHEY HAD AN ACCADENT THEN THEY WOULD BE CRYING AND SAYING I DID'NT MEAN IT BUT THAT WOULD BE TOO LATE.

[@marcfield582]

What I punch in the gut.

[@kdmq]

Car crashes back then were like a bomb going off.

[@mobilechief]

Jimmy got to love him

[@steveb9151]

5:51 "Aw Heck!" Wow, the Beaver would never get away with that kind of gutter language!

[@Edward-bd8iy]

"My Three Sons"😅😅

[@trent3872]

Academy award performance here.

[@manhoot]

Lesson, drive carefully.

[@manhoot]

Drive carefully

[@gunslingr45]

@ 3:47 At first guess they end up losing their mom.

[@Frenite]

gunslingr45 Correct

[@VinnyDaQ]

Wow !! Jimmy Stuart doing a public service film - who woulda thunk it ?! : )

[@VinnyDaQ]

+silverbird58 Just goes to prove - Jimmy is DA MAN !!!

[@bigstuff52]

B-24 bird...

[@Edward-bd8iy]

"The FBI Story"

[@seththomas9105]

"Only 20 mins from downtown driving" and only 15 by the Red Car, that is until GM, Firestone, and Standard oil bought out most rail public transit post war and killed it. Build more highways!

[@BigBeeyGuy]

That's an urban legend actually. Almost all streetcar systems planned to replace streetcars with motor coaches after WWII. They were actually replacing streetcars as early as the 1920s on the lightly used lines once the tracks were amortized. Street cars, rails and the electrical systems they required were hellishly expensive compared to buses.

[@kenp3L]

That's not the reason. Everyone wanted to move from a house on a 1/16-acre lot to a house on a 1/4-acre lot. Landholders wanted to cash in on the property that was in their family since the French and Indian War. Everyone wanted to get away from the Blacks. The result was urban sprawl, and to this day, there's no end in sight.

[@sonsofthunder915]

Not to mention Eisenhower's interstate hwys courtesy of "the military industrial complex". LOL

[@johna.4334]

And death to public transportation!

[@unconventionalideas5683]

GM _did_ have a much more developed bus system in mind, with dedicated bus lanes, turnouts on the expressways, signals timed for buses, park and ride schemes, and the whole thing. This failed because of political failings, just like the streetcars, which were also never given their own lane where cars weren't allowed, so they got stuck in the same traffic as everyone else, just like the buses.

[@debralynnpaxton5238]

Powerful film 😢

[@johnnyhawkins43]

Very heartbreaking video!!!!!!!!

[@marcfield6166]

As simple as this is, man is it effective. " It was only I minor violation."

[@heathershimamoto121]

That was definitely the part that stuck with me the most, along with the officer saying, until someone else got in the way. Because that's what so many driving errors are: mistakes that are very easy to make. It's the aftermath that's difficult to live with. I remember accidentally running a red light once--just wasn't paying enough attention and felt awful after I did it, even though I was the only one around. But what if I hadn't been? What if a pedestrian had crossed or a car had turned in front of me at the exact wrong moment? I shudder to think of it.

[@1940limited]

I certainly recognize Jimmy Stewart's voice.

[@wgoldenny]

Sad ending

[@PitchlockPete]

Pedal pumping

[@jackjohnson7396]

Never give a ending away!

[@samith3198]

Good old america

[@styldsteel1]

Seems nothing much has changed, only driving attitudes have plummeted to its lowest levels and people viamemtly refuse to put down their useless handheld electronic devices which I call them pacifiers. Yea. Let the dumbing down commence

[@-oiiio-3993]

Vehemently.

[@Edward-bd8iy]

Yessir, Bailey Park is looking good these days (0:54). George, ya done good...

[@somersetdc]

This would be a great movie parody on Mystery Science 2000

[@carolinamelara3093]

Wish we had judges like on this video

[@marcfield582]

Yep. How did I see that coming from a mile away?

[@privateprivate1865]

Sounds like Jimmy Stewart

[@mls617983]

It's Jimmy Stewart. The credits at the beginning said, James Stewart. He was a great actor

[@danielginther4879]

Even more relevant today.......

[@movieklump]

No air bags, seat belts, impact zones. Those old cars were death traps.

[@-oiiio-3993]

Lots of steel, however.

[@movieklump]

@@-oiiio-3993 And as pretty as a picture.

[@markpotvin7119]

Speaking of nostalgic shots. I've been watching quite a few movies from the 50's and 60's, and I've noticed the driver enters the car on the drivers side, but whether alone or with a front passenger, they all exit on the passenger side. I was wondering if it was for ease of filming, or was this a normal routine for drivers and passengers of those eras?

[@sonsofthunder915]

Cars manufactured in that era only had a keyhole for the door lock on the passengers door. Yes, back then for safety reasons many drivers exited the car through the right side of the vehicle.

[@bigstuff52]

Danny Boy...Thanks for that..As Johnny would say"I did not know that"

[@RichardDzien]

This and also many cars had no centre console and bench seat. Just not possible easily in modern cars with all the stuff in the centre.

[@-oiiio-3993]

Bench seats, lots of room. "Slide over" was the mode.

[@johnreitz5676]

No seat belts to get in the way.

[@GlacialLake]

lol and people are saying that all cars today look alike

[@johna.4334]

Because it's true. Cars back in the day were unique in appearance....and beautiful.

[@billkramer1853]

I love that 32 ford convertible

[@abevigoda3149]

I remember watching this one but it was the kid in the roadster who died, quite strange to see it was the kids' mom who died in this version.

[@Poorexampeofhuman]

Haha said clocked at 110mph, my first car pulled 116mph in the 1320, toping out north of 165mph..

[@BigEightiesNewWave]

That soup job was made out of a Campbell's Soup can

[@NinoSpano]

Was this filmed in Pa.

[@Porschedude8]

West coast southern California.

[@NinoSpano]

ty

[@-oiiio-3993]

Los Angeles, California.

[@hep2jive]

Mu mu mu MARRRY

[@Edward-bd8iy]

"Muh car...my car... Have you seen my car?"

[@jamescache1768]

Wait, so there was yellow right before green back in those days? Like in Europe?

[@christinesilva2034]

well. done

[@whofandb]

It shouldn't have been the Dr or the punk kid.

[@Jozavenue]

rich don't work hard ,but study hard and long so they can work smart.

[@notfeedynotlazy]

Oh, the terrifying distopya of the suburban 1950's USA...

[@jppooler5577]

At 3:55 that guy could be a young Steve Martin.

[@ronenfe]

why is she touching her cheek with her cheek?

[@smashthemachine3746]

I was hoping so bad it wasn't the children's mother......gut-wrenching....so sad now.

[@ednaoldebeken3853]

I'm old.

[@Aranimda]

At least the cars and the road system are safer nowadays. Maybe automation once will largely eliminate driver errors and 'minor violations'.

[@-oiiio-3993]

When this film was made, one could often walk away from a 'rollover'. Those cars were made of steel and lots of it.

[@galoon]

Automation will likely make it worse. Machines and computers are designed and built by people--they can and will fail, killing car occupants and pedestrians in the process. Plus automation will breed generations of drivers who don't have any experience driving manually. Would you go up in a plane with a pilot who doesn't know how to fly the aircraft himself? Me neither.

[@Sashazur]

@@-oiiio-3993 Your chances of walking away from a rollover are far better now than back then. Older cars like the ones in this film didn’t have seat belts, the doors often opened in a crash, and they were structurally weaker.

[@-oiiio-3993]

@@Sashazur This film was released in 1950. Nash offered seat belts as a 'cost option' for their 1949 models and afterward. Seat belts had initially been developed in the late 19th Century for pilots of experimental gliders. A seat belt design was patented in 1885 for passengers of (horse drawn) taxicabs in New York City.

[@RADIUMGLASS]

Buddy McCall must be at least 87 by now if he didn't break his neck driving the hot rod.

[@Edward-bd8iy]

He sold it to Jay Leno in 2003 and retired comfortably...

[@mxferro]

When women... were women

[@johna.4334]

When the chrome was thick and the women were straight.

[@johna.4334]

@@allotribus Vs. the tramp whores we have today...sad.

[@Edward-bd8iy]

And many women were both thick AND straight. Yesss. "My anaconda don't want none if you ain't got buns, hon! You can do side bends or sit-ups, but please don't lose that butt...."

[@jaymeade9898]

Buddy needs a good dose of the Red Forman discipline.

[@TomMcRand]

heavy...but topical as always

[@RADIUMGLASS]

17:55 1948 Cadillac

[@Brian-zp1df]

I was hoping it was the salesman

[@RADIUMGLASS]

After the narrator James Stewart died in 1997, his house was sold and demolished by the new owners.

[@rentslave]

Had Truman built a wall,LA would still be livable.

[@johna.4334]

@Hunter D How is building a wall along our southern border "racist"?

[@johna.4334]

Had Truman backed Chiang Kai-shek 100% with American support there would not have been a Korean War nor ChiComs nor Hồ Chí Minh. Truman was one of the worst US presidents ever right behind Lyndon Johnson. Any coincidence that both were one term presidents?

[@johna.4334]

@Hunter D No ground troops but rather advisors and armament.

[@johna.4334]

@Hunter D There are many angry young men in this day and age of moral/social/family decay that resent the presence of authority figures... especially when the figures are old. Case in point: I live next to a loser neighbor in his 30s (I'm in my 60s) who refuses to work and lives off the dole. No matter how hard I try to be nice he refuses to be social. He talks to other people his age but not to me. Strange.

[@-oiiio-3993]

If you had a brain, you'd be human.

[@olddisneylandtickets]

Oscar Goldman was a jerk in this!

[@hyerinjun2468]

Its only minor violation.. Spoiler alert Single mom killed in road accident and child become orphan

[@will7its]

Bags of manure on the front fenders.....lol

[@workinprogress3942]

I was betting that the kid in the hit rod would of been in an accident.

[@jamescalifornia2964]

Yeah - they threw us a curve. Reminds me of Alfred Hitchcock style ending ...

[@bigbadwolf1966]

If it was made around here & now, they would make it the gardeners fault. Media and authorities keep complaining about "old clunkers" on the road, even though the average vehicle age is now under 12 years old. The media constantly blames the roads or old cars, never the responsibility & attitude of the driver.

[@ChadtheHammer]

2:49 What the fuck??

[@jameservinmedia]

Toupdate this film, they'd just have to add a scene about a road rage driver shooting someone.

[@MikeLawson-cj4kt]

Does no one in this town know how to drive?

[@user-sn4js6nh9h]

That sucks, it couldn't have been the old dr. I mean he aint got long anyway. The just had to make it the lady that lost her husband, now we got a couple of orphan kids. This really sucks.

[@johna.4334]

You missed the chapter in life about showing respect for your elders. Fail!

[@BigEightiesNewWave]

24:46 😣😨