Freedom Highway (Part I) (1956)

★★★★ · What are the chances of meeting Tex Ritter on a Greyhound? · Spuzz · 2005-05-16

Even though it has the 'star' power of Tommy Kirk AND Tex Ritter, Freedom Highway isn't as good or delirious as "America For Me" and that somewhat hurts it. Essentially, it follows a LONG Greyhound bus trip from SF to Washington DC, with everyone looking peppy-go-lucky even though they've probably been travelling for days on end. The story follows a number of characters, a boy meeting his troop in Washington, A disgruntled man picking up a congressional medal of honor for his late son, a bit of a laughable love story between a football player and a lady, and a bit of a mystery passenger who's…

★★★★ · Freedom Highway (Full Film) · Christine Hennig · 2002-10-23

This very 50s film features a group of nice 50s people who travel across the country from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. on a Greyhound bus. Instead of becoming totally exhausted and stressed-out by this cross-country bus trip (you weren't expecting reality, were you?), they all become quite chummy and some even find a sort of patriotic salvation in "seeing the country". Featured are Tommy Kirk as a Boy Scout who utters "gee whiz!" at everything, Angie Dickenson and football star Bob Roberts who fall in love during the trip and decide to get married right away (I'd like to see her explain…

★★ · The American Experience and The Truth · rmarches · 2023-08-24

I think this is one of those documentaries that were regular features during the 1950s. In a sense, that was the decade when patriotism was accelerated probably due to the combination of the paranoia about communism and the fear of a nuclear attack. The American history featured here was the one that I was taught as a student in the Fifties. I believed in it then. I was a proud fan of TV Western heroes like Tex Ritter, Roy Rogers, The Lone Ranger, and Davy Crockett. I listened and absorbed their message about how Bad Guys are always wrong and Good Guys are always right - and that all 'Good'…