Special Delivery (1963)

★★★★★ · Boring industrial film screaming with sub-text · Steve Nordby · 2003-09-11

All the children are special to bus driver Bill. But he wants to keep his job, so patience is his weapon. Next year they will be a little older, and for 5-year-old Mickey Miller, it will be the start of a great adventure. The first day of school is a new, worthwhile challenge with eager children. But a wise man can distinguish fact from fancy, and although Bill fancies Mickey, Mickey is ambivalent about Bill. So Bill rings the door to get Mickey out of bed, take him for a ride in his car, and make him behave. "What was this all about," Mickey thinks. Bill's opportunity had come! What a nice…

★★★ · All aboard the White Man's Wagon! · Spuzz · 2005-06-14

Somewhat depressing film which is all about a boy named Mickey, and how he wants so desperately to ride the 'White Man's Wagon cough *Rosa Parks* excuse me, now where was I? Oh right, but he can't because he's too young! Well, a year whizzes past, and now he can! Problem is, he doesnt trust that bus driver who through all of last year, wouldnt let him on. So, in a brilliant idea I'm sure, the bus driver picks up Mickey and his sister at the crack of dawn to pick up his bus, do safety checks and then pick up everyone, and reverse the process after school. Just the look of his sister 'Millie'…

★★★ · Get the Kid Some Help · Yowp · 2022-06-29

Clearly, young Mickey has some mental issues. He has deluded himself into thinking he is a native American stereotype, and does so for months on end. What do his parents do? Well, we only hear his mother. She and his sister humour him, as if it's playtime. Hey, the kid is firing fake arrows at a moving vehicle loaded with children (Fortunately, it's the '60s. Today, he'd have a loaded gun). Clearly, something's wrong with him. Evidently no one in this film has watched anything produced by Sid Davis, as mom lets a gift-bearing guy she knows only as a school bus driver take her five year old…

★ · A sedative masquerading as a bus safety film · GE_Pretzel · 2006-05-19

There are few films that can surpass or even equal the mediocrity of Special Delivery, a horrendously cumbersome safety film for schoolbus operators that fails to captivate. Instead of simply attempting to discuss the fundamentals of schoolbus safety and procedure in a concise, forthright manner, the film's creators place the necessary educational elements within a dry, unengaging story involving Mickey Miller, a recalcitrant little boy who has developed a strong distrust of the local schoolbus and its driver, Bill Marshall. It appears that Mickey has been reading far too many James Fenimore…