Chance To Lose

★★★★ · CHANCE TO LOSE slick 1930's safety film · ERD. · 2009-12-24

Late 1930's safety film was well made and brings out important points of driving safely. Good script, direction and b & w photography.

★★★★ · Watch out for those pigs! · Spuzz · 2005-01-29

Jam Handyish-like production about driving safely has some great old cars, nice editing and gee whiz bang narration. It's all very surprising when you see a film like this actually, as you don't really realize that the motor safety film was made at this time. I really did like the acting in this film which all looked prim and proper (eg no blacks) which I guess was used to demonstrate that yes, even us rich folk can get into accidents as well!

★★★★ · Stunts · longfade · 2010-07-09

Wow, the dramatized scenes are actually pretty death-defying in their own right. Guys stepping out in front of cars barreling down the road, near-miss head on collisions, etc.

★★★★ · Only the Best of Luck and a Convenient Pigpen Averted Tragedy! · Christine Hennig · 2005-01-13

This campy driving safety film from the 30s is breezily narrated like a newsreel featurette and features drivers who end up in humorous pratfalls as a result of their unsafe driving habits instead of tragedy, though the narrator gives plenty of stern warnings about such. The highlight is a young couple who end up crashing into a pigpen because of the young mans tendency to associate manhood with speeding. Obviously, this humorous tack didnt work, for driver safety films were to get more and more horrific as time went by, culminating in the gore films of the 60s. Although this was made by the…

★★★ · Safe Cars Then? · JayKay49 · 2012-04-13

No seat belts and hard metal dashboards combined with those old brakes that locked up if you hit 'em too hard made it so that most people only had one accident....because you often didnt survive the crushed chest or your noggin flyin through the windshield. This film shows some nice classic cars though.