Crashing the Movies

  • Genre: Comedy
  • Run time: 8 min
  • Premiere: 1950. January 28.

This Pete Smith Specialty short shows newsreel clips of people performing strange stunts. Among those featured are a motorcyclist driving through a pane of glass, a car being driven up a ramp and crashing on top of other cars, a human loop-the-loop, and a man who has a cannonball shot at his abdomen at close range.

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Pete Smith

Narrator (voice)

Frank Richards

Himself (as 'Cannonball' Richards)

Directing

Dave O'Brien

Director

Editing

Production

Pete Smith

Producer

Writing

Joe Ansen

Writer

Directing

Dave O'Brien

Director

Editing

Production

Pete Smith

Producer

Writing

Joe Ansen

Writer