O'Mara's Chain Miracle (1951)
1951 · Ephemeral film · 11 min
- Comedy
Synopsis
Officer O'Mara, a normally grumpy traffic cop, lightens up one day and smiles at a passing motorist. This sets off a chain of goodwill and pleasantness in the entire town, which leads to better business practices, but leaves O'Mara wondering why everyone is now so pleasant.
Synopsis from TMDb
Details
- Studio
- Jam Handy Organization (JHO)
- Released
- 1951-01-01
- Running time
- 11 minutes
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
Cast & crew
Victor McLaglen
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · THIS FILM RULES · Seto-Kaiba_Is_Stupid · 2009-02-01
I LOVE THIS CORNY YET CUTE FILM, IT'S FEATURES NICE FOOTAGE OF CARS. VERY GOOD FOR AN INFOMERCIAL. THANKS RICK.
★★★★ · Nice Message · Visual16 · 2005-10-19
This is one of the films I like, a voyage to simpler, trusting times. Having watched some of the silent home movie footage taken during the Great Depression (also on this site), I noticed that people rarely frowned or got angry at the cameraman. They all smiled and waved hello. America has not only changed but has "been changed" by debatable forces that are destroying freedom of speech, the press, and the middle class. People are separated and privacy paranoid, angry at anyone who disagrees with them. A nice thread in many of Handy's films is an optimistic sense of America's greatness…
★★★★ · A feel-good reminder of small town America · whelanjh · 2016-03-30
This movie is a comforting imaginary trip back to small-town American life as I comprehended it, growing up shortly after this film was made. Most all of the Jam-Handy productions are of interest for their period footage and unusual industrial specialty topics; this one is just plain fun to watch repeatedly.
★★★★ · Steve Nordby · 2003-10-30
The ways in which Jam Handy can hype Chevy's never cease to amaze. In this film, short tempered traffic cop O'Mara doesn't explode at the service station guy that stops in the crosswalk (in his brand new convertable Chevy), so the service station guy is nice to a customer (in a Chevy), who then treats his customers nicely... and so on and so on... and of course it ends up at the Chevy dealer! And they all lived happily ever after!
★★★ · Village Of The Damned II · Spuzz · 2003-12-22
Pretty creepy expose starring Victor Mclaglen about a cop who, because he was friendly to one motorist, starts a chain reaction and then everyone passes the friendliness around, soon the whole town is just so gosh darned friendly! If you believe that this could happen in your town, well, here's a 1950's happiness pill for you too.
