Sudden Birth (1967)

★★★★★ · Keep Calm · jonel469 · 2008-12-27

Wow,where to begin?First I liked how when Officer Bob left the police station he was in a '64 Impala and in the next shot he's in a Ford.Neat trick Bob!He's a cop,no he's a doctor,no he's a magician!Guess there was no money in the budget for continunity just as there was no money in the budget for sound editing.And then we meet dear officer Chuck."First you conquer your own fear , and then you you have it!,by calming her,making her comfortable.You ask her to remove her underclothes,You've already asked for the ambulance,and natures about to take it's course.From there on it's mostly what You…

★★★★★ · And then the water broke! · MediaWhore · 2005-09-02

Wow!! This is the real deal for sure!! Very graphic footage filmed up close and personal of a pregnant woman spittin out a baby in the back seat of her car. I want to know what went on behind the scenes here and how this woman came to be in this film (did they offer her more money than she could refuse or was she just a good samaritan who wanted to help educate police officers in the birthing of babies outside hospitals). I saw "The Miracle of Birth" back in Jr. High but this film clearly blows it out of the water (further out of the water than when this ladies water breaks, watch the film…

★★★★★ · A Must see! (Well, maybe not...) · sonnet29 · 2004-11-28

Before today, the only sexual act that I had not witnessed on video or on my computer was the act of giving birth, from a biological standpoint the most important act of all. As a dedicated student of human sexuality (aren't we all?) I wanted to see it. However, the remarkable thing about this film is not that it merely features a live birth, but that it features a live birth in the back of an old 1950's automobile. Think about that for a moment... for the sake of educating police officers on handling an emergency birth, or perhaps because they paid her, or maybe cause she couldn't afford to…

★★★★★ · bad acting, good film · somnii · 2007-01-12

Poor dowopbob is still reeling over the "Tooth Fairy Conspiracy"! Should we believe it was common practice that one policeman and a camera crew were driving around for months, or years, on end for just the chance that they would find a woman going into labor so they could catch it on film: that's dumb! Of course the cop was actually a doctor; I wouldn't call the police to give me a flu-shot either. That was a real birth caught on film, a pretty amazing thing when you "think" about it. The only bad part about the film was the acting and the shape the film was in, and that's most of the fun of…

★★★★★ · Additional remarks · rpaul · 2006-10-22

When I wrote the notes, below, I had not yet re-viewed this film since even before it was released in 1966. Now, however, I have done so: I note that the producer's name is John Siegle (although I believe I only saw his credit listed as a cameraman). I note my mom's credit (Marena Skibo -- her maiden name) was without specifics.

★★★★★ · More Real Than Real · Tprof · 2012-02-21

Educational movies for US officers in the Sixties were really tough! I wonder: how were the movies that explained how to deal with a serial killer???