None for the Road: Teenage Drinking and Driving (1957)

★★★★★ · None for the Road · 23_skidoo · 2007-07-21

Keith Painton was a radio announcer from Kansas City. He frequently appears in Calvin productions(see "The Bright Young Newcomer" and "Murder on the Screen," for example) and narrates two Centron films that I've found. This is one of them. He plays Dr. Wentworth, a scientist who studies the effects of alcohol. Actually, this Centron film presents two simultaneous "stories"---one is Wentworth in his lab showing us the effects of alcohol on lab rats, as well as showing us teenagers in Aetna Drive-O Trainers. The other is of a group of friends who are all drinking together one night and seem to…

★★★★ · None for the Road: Teenage Drinking and Driving · Christine Hennig · 2002-11-18

Dan the non-drinker, Keith the moderate drinker, and Jerry the heavy drinker all drive home from a party accompanied by their girlfriends, except for Jerry, whose girlfriend picks a fight with him to avoid having to ride home with him in his condition. She accepts a ride with Keith and his girlfriend. Later, Dan and his girlfriend, who have been worrying all night about Jerry driving home alone, come across a car accident. They immediately fear Jerry was responsible, but no, the cops tell Dan that they arrested Jerry earlier in the evening for weaving down the road. Phew!, Dan's girlfriend…

★★★★ · What were they thinking? · Lt. Frank Drebin · 2005-07-16

This film tells me that drinking responsibly is worse than getting completely hammered. Also, great footage of the narrator torturing rats.